34. If someone is taught to calculate, is
he also taught that he can rely on a calculation of his teacher’s? But these
explanations must after all sometime come to an end. Will he also be taught
that he can trust his senses – since he is indeed told in many cases that in
such and such a special case you cannot trust them? –
Rule and exception.
‘If someone is taught to calculate, is he
also taught that he can rely on a calculation of his teacher’s?
being taught to rely on a calculation of
the teacher –
is being taught to assume the teacher’s
authority
‘But these explanations must after all sometime
come to an end.’
they come to an end when people stop asking
for them –
and most likely that will happen once they
realise that all they are getting in these so called ‘explanations’ –
is just reassertions of the initial claim
of authority –
and when they realise –
this claim to authority – is based on
nothing –
nothing but – assertion
‘Will he also be taught that he can trust
his senses – since he is indeed told in many cases that in such and such a
special case you cannot trust them? –
the idea of trust here – is irrelevant
you operate with your senses –
and what the senses show you – display to
you –
is uncertainty
and it is this uncertainty –
that is the source –
of all the power variety and beauty –
of sensuality
rule and exception?
a rule is just another uncertain
proposition –
and likewise any ‘exception’ –
to any so called rule
© greg t. charlton. 2009.