on certainty 6

6. Now, can one enumerate what one knows (like Moore)? Straight off like that, I believe not. – For otherwise the expression “I know” gets misused. And through this misuse a queer and extremely important mental state seems to be revealed.

with ‘I know ..’ ‘I know …’  ‘I know …’

etc . etc. –

it is not that ‘I know’ gets misused –

it gets revealed –

for what it is –

unnecessary and irrelevant

and the mental state –

revealed –

‘queer’ – ‘extremely important’ –

or otherwise

is pretentiousness –

and the basis of pretension –

is either deception –

or delusion

© greg t. charlton. 2009.