88. The strange thing that the event I expected isn’t distinct from the
one I expected. –
“The report was not so loud as I had expected.”
“How can you say that the red you see in front of you is the same as the
one you imagined?” – One takes the meaning of the word ‘red’ as being the sense
of a proposition saying that something is red.
‘The strange thing that the event I expected isn’t distinct from the one
I expected.’
a piece of good luck?
however if you look at it
carefully – there are questions –
OK – what has happened has
happened –
can you be sure that what
happened was what you expected?
or that you are not now shaping
the event to fit what you now think was your expectation?
can you check your expectation
without prejudice?
“The report was not so loud as I had expected.” –
fair enough – but can you say with precision – how loud you expected it
to be?
perhaps it actually was as loud as you expected –
and it was just that you weren’t in the right place at the right time –
to hear it as you expected to hear it?
these proposals – like any other proposal – are questionable – are
doubtable –
that is just the nature of the proposal – of the proposition –
this is not to say that we shouldn’t say what we say –
it is rather to caution that it is wise to recognize the fallibility of
what we say – what we propose –
and to be careful not to get deluded into a false security
“How can you say that the red you see in front of you is the same as the
one you imagined?”
you can’t – but you probably will
and that is OK –
so long as you understand that
your proposal – is open to question – open to doubt – is uncertain
‘One takes the meaning of the word ‘red’ as being the sense of a
proposition saying that something is red.’?
just what ‘red’ means – and just what the sense of this proposition is –
is on the face of it – very unclear –
what is it that is red – and in what context is the proposition put?
if we are to have even a start up on meaning and sense here – we need
more than –‘something is red’ –
this proposal is basically bare – it needs clothes –
however quite apart from the fact that it is wanting –
meaning and sense – and any supposed relation between the two –
are all matters open to question – open to doubt – uncertain
if we are deal with propositions logically –
we have to embrace uncertainty –
otherwise the reality we create and operate in –
is delusional
© greg t. charlton. 2014.
