Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Why Trump Never Errs

The question here is “Can Minority-President Trump make a mistake as President?” The answer depends on what we mean by a mistake. 

Let’s say you have a two-year-old who has been shown nothing about how math works. You ask her to add 7 and 6. She gives you an answer: “Four.”  Has she made a mistake? Wittgenstein would say no. Or you put a chimpanzee in the cab of a locomotive and tell her to stop in Albany. Instead she stops in the middle of a raspberry farm. Has she made a mistake?


Before you can make a mistake, you have to know what the game is and how to perform it correctly.  

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