You dont have to be grateful, Dr. Dixon said. I merely performed a medico-legal necropsy to determine the cause of death. The always acute and often profound author ofAn Outline of Sematology (Mr. B. H. Smart) justly says, Locke will be much more intelligible, if, in the majority of places, we substitute the knowledge of for what he calls ‘the Idea of’ (p. 10). Among the many criticisms on Locke’s use of the word Idea, this is the one which, as it appears to me, most nearly hits the mark; and I quote it for the additional reason that it precisely expresses the point of difference respecting the import of Propositions, between my view and what I have spoken of as the Conceptualist view of them. Where a Conceptualist says that a name or a proposition expresses our Idea of a thing, I should generally say (instead of our Idea) our Knowledge, or Belief, concerning the thing itself. Rob Trentons eyes lit up. What’s the problem? He started to demonstrate this with his huge hands, and Jessie warned,Watch it, youll knock over the wine! and reached for the bottle, almost knocking it over herself. Let me! I know how. Thats fine. Bring him up. The dogs recognized his voice. One dog barked gladly, a single short yelp of welcome, and then, under the influence of Robs command, lapsed into silence. Chapter Twenty-Five What dya mean by that statement? Connell, I demand that you give me the facts in your possession. Sure, he said. Come up tonight. Ill probably be having a little celebration for old Toddy, but we can find a corner that’ll be quiet enough to talk in. She said she was molested when she was a kid. I said:And tell the son-of-a-bitch to take that knife out from behind his back. We know him. Wendel took up the tale of woe with:And then we went to the police. Id already been there but they’d said there was nothing they could do about it. That I had no right to talk with my own wife unless she was willing. But Joey knew a man who knew some of the police and we told him about it. § 2. The answer to every question which it is possible to frame, must be contained in a Proposition, or Assertion. Whatever can be an object of belief, or even of disbelief, must, when put into words, assume the form of a proposition. All truth and all error lie in propositions. What, by a convenient misapplication of an abstract term, we call a Truth, means simply a True Proposition; and errors are false propositions. To know the import of all possible propositions would be to know all questions which can be raised, all matters which are susceptible of being either believed or disbelieved. How many kinds of inquiries can be propounded; how many kinds of judgments can be made; and how many kinds of propositions it is possible to frame with a meaning, are but different forms of one and the same question. Since, then, the objects of all Belief and of all Inquiry express themselves in propositions, a sufficient scrutiny of Propositions and of their varieties will apprise us what questions mankind have actually asked of themselves, and what, in the nature of answers to those questions, they have actually thought they had grounds to believe. Il leur semble quil n’y a qu’à douter par fantaisie, et qu’il n’y a qu’à dire en général que notre nature est infirme; que notre esprit est plein d’aveuglement: qu’il faut avoir un grand soin de se défaire de ses préjugés, et autres choses semblables. Ils pensent que celasuffit pour ne plus se laisser séduire à ses sens, et pour ne plus se tromper du tout. Il ne suffit pas de dire que l’esprit est foible, il faut lui faire sentir ses foiblesses. Ce n’est pas assez de dire qu’il est sujet à l’erreur, il faut lui découvrir en quoi consistent ses erreurs.—Malebranche, Recherche de la Vérité..