AtD p. 868 "we must fall back on probabilites'

[Paul Mackin]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> Further; in such a modern world, relying on 'probabilites' is to say 
> all certainties
> are GONE..................................................

What about Death and Taxes and that the sun will rise tomorrow?

Oh yes in some theoretical sense there are no certainties, but does that 
have any practical meaning?

If before I knew there were no certainties I knew I didn't like spinach, 
finding out different doesn't soften my opinion any.

It's like the idea that there is no absolute Truth.

Studying postmodernist thought or post-structuralism does change 
anyone's beliefs about anything--except of course he now knows there is 
no Truth.

:-)







>  
> See On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Grounds for /doubt/ are 
> lacking! Everything speaks in its favour, nothing against it.
>  
> "All that is solid melts into air"....marx
>
> */Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>     in the modern world here, "no loyalties, no code of honor, no
>     ancient tradition"----Pynchonian ideals----exist anymore. Everyone
>     can be bought?
>      
>     "We must fall back on probabilities".......
>      
>     Cf. roulette, gambling, chance themes..
>      
>      
>      
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