From Seeming to Being
“From its seeming to me — or to everyone — to be so, it doesn’t follow that it is so. What we can ask is whether it can make sense to doubt it.” This remark cuts to the heart of epistemology: consensus is not truth. Even if something seems certain to everyone, this collective certainty doesn’t guarantee correspondence with reality. But Wittgenstein adds a crucial twist: the relevant question isn’t “is it true?” but “does it make sense to doubt it?” Some propositions are so fundamental that doubting them would undermine the very framework within which doubt operates. ...