Wednesday, August 12, 2009

on certainty 103


103. And now if I were to say “It is my unshakable conviction that etc.”, this means in the present case too that I have not consciously arrived at the conviction by following a particular line of thought, but that it is anchored in all my questions and answers, so anchored that I cannot touch it.



‘so anchored that I cannot touch it’ –
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all you have to do to ‘touch it’ –

is to think about it

and to think about it –

is to question it

‘unshakable conviction’ –

is rhetorical rubbish


© greg t. charlton. 2010.