30. When someone has made sure of
something, he says: “Yes, the calculation is right”, but he did not infer from
his condition of certainty. One does not infer how things are from one’s own
certainty.
Certainty is as it were a tone of voice
in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of
voice that one is justified.
yes –‘a tone of voice’ – effectively – just
rhetoric
what is justification?
your claim of authority – for your
proposition
and your authority?
if it is anything more than your authorship
it is false and deceptive
the claim of justification – like that of
certainty
is rhetorical
© greg t. charlton. 2010.