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samseb5351 what I am saying is you cant demonstrably show you will never drink again. Unless you have a skill of time travel or telling the future.
Using this standard you can't stop drinking one day at a time, either. You won't know for sure until midnight that you didn't drink today.
Originally Posted by Wittgenstein
Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a “beetle”. No one can look into anyone else’s box, and everyone says he knows what a beetle is only by looking at his beetle. –Here it would be quite possible for everyone to have something different in his box. One might even imagine such a thing constantly changing. –But suppose the word “beetle” had a use in these people’s language? –If so it would not be used as the name of a thing. The thing in the box has no place in the language-game at all; not even as a something: for the box might even be empty. –No, one can ‘divide through’ by the thing in the box; it cancels out, whatever it is.
That is to say: if we construe the grammar of the expression of sensation on the model of ‘object and designation’ the object drops out of consideration as irrelevant.
Stop trying to describe what's in my box.