Probable

Publish date 03-12-2020

by Fabio Arduini

The probable, the dictionaries write, is what can be proved. What cannot be proven does not enter his enclosure. Let's stick to this definition, the question: what do you think is probable? goes straight to measuring the degree to which one is willing to question one's certainties.

It gives feedback on one's intellectual honesty, it also allows us to evaluate which certainties are of those that can be dropped, and which cannot. Which makes the word probable a valuable tool.

However, there is also another way of understanding its meaning. As if it were a crystal ball, the probable would allow us to distinguish what is real and what is not, what is true of past history, and what can only be of future history. If it's not probable, it doesn't even exist.

The probable, understood in this way, is a steamroller, ready to asphalt every sprout of truth, because it only regards the need for certainties, for ready answers, for positions of power to be preserved.


Fabio Arduini
NP october 2020

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