on certainty 3

3. If e.g. someone says “I don’t know if there is a hand here’ he might be told “Look closer”. – This possibility of satisfying oneself is part of the language-game. It is one of its essential features.

when does he stop looking closer?

when he’s  found what?

knowledge?

any ‘satisfaction’ here –

is pretence

and yes – perhaps pretence –

just is one of the essential features –

of the language-game

© greg t. charlton. 2009.