677. A proposition is a
proposal. A proposal is open to question, open to doubt, is uncertain. A
proposition is true if assented to. A proposition is false if dissented from.
Assent and dissent are open to question, open to doubt. If you are certain there can be no mistake. In an uncertain reality there
are no mistakes; what you face is uncertainties. The notion of the mistake has
no role to play in epistemology. The
claim of knowledge is a claim to an authority for a proposition. The
only authority is authorship. The authorship of a proposition is logically irrelevant.
Any claim to an authority other than authorship is rhetorical.
*There is no 677 in Wittgenstein’s text. Wittgenstein ends
with 676.
© greg t. charlton. 2011.