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Ep. 309: Wittgenstein On Certainty (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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I Know This Is a Hand, I Know It Is a Hand.

In everyday life, no game works like that. This amounts to a kind of basic version of straightforward realism is part of the rules of the game. And my basic rule is that physical realism is just part of therules. I look at stuff and if I hadn't account for things, how do you know it's a hand? You start talking about the features of a hand and those kinds of things. That sounds like a good place to wrap up part one, explore that more in part two. Maybe we'll actually quote the text at some point.

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