50. When does one say, I know that …x… = …?
When one has checked the calculation.
you don’t say –
‘I know that …x… = …?’
if you are going to say anything here –
you just assert the proposition
to claim to know –
is to claim an authority –
the only authority you have –
is authorship –
beyond that –
any claim to an authority –
is nothing more than rhetoric
as to checking –
this is no more than repetition
in checking –
you don’t question the assumptions –
on which the calculation –
is based
and if you did –
you would see that they are –
uncertain
your ‘knowledge’ here –
is assumption –
and it is on the basis of this –
‘uncertain knowledge’ –
that you proceed
© greg t. charlton. 2009.
