The reader’s familiarity with the truth expressed in this proposition is proportional to his familiarity with the experience of thinking scientifically. In proportion as a man is thinking scientifically when he makes a statement, he knows that his statement is the answer to a question and knows what that question is. In proportion as he is thinking unscientifically he does not know these things.
Prop. 2. ’Every question involves a presupposition.
We are saying that the one is existentially dependent upon and thus precedes the other.
— creativesoul
Yes. — tim wood
The point is that in logical terms it is — tim wood
When you say, "I am ready for bed," what do you mean? And to save a step, how do you know you mean it? — tim wood
When I say "I am ready for bed", I mean that I am tired at the time I say it. Perhaps it had been a long physically or mentally exhausting day, and I am ready to lay down and fall asleep for the night. I know that that's what I mean because that's what I've learned to say during such circumstances.
Relevance? — creativesoul
Sure and of course. But how do you know? — tim wood
Do you have an argument? A valid counter? Something?
— creativesoul
Sure... — tim wood
The latter involve presuppositions to which to the statement, or proposition, stand as answer to a question about those presuppositions. And this you do not agree with. — tim wood
He is telling you that it is an absolute presupposition of the science he pursues: and I have made him a pathologist because this absolute proposition about all events having causes, which a hundred years ago was made in every branch of natural science, has now ceased to be made in some branches, but medicine is one of those in which it is still made. — Collingwood
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