on certainty 50

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.