on certainty 15

15. It needs to be shewn that no mistake was possible. Giving the assurance “I know” doesn’t suffice. For it is after all only an assurance that I can’t be making a mistake, and it needs to be objectively established that I am not making a mistake about that. 

‘I am not making a mistake about that’ –

is to claim certainty

any claim to objectivity here –

will be open to question – open to doubt

so – objectivity here –

amounts to uncertainty

in a context of uncertainty –

there are no mistakes

© greg t. charlton. 2009.