Atdtda[4]: 98.18 It could have been a religion

[Michel]

Probably the finer subtleties of English grammar escape me, but isn't 
there a paradox between the statement "It could have been a religion, 
for all he knew [...]" and what follows up till the end of the 
paragraph? It ends with (after a kind of 'vision'):

"[...] the truth he now possessed in his personal interior, certain and 
unshakable." (99.14-15), which sounds more a metaphysical than a 
scientific statement.

It is that "could" that puzzles me a bit.

Or, in this paragraph we see echoes of 19th century Posivitism, and an 
early version of a 20th century attitude where science may become a 
believe in science.

Michel.




	

	
		
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