Sunday, December 06, 2009

on certainty 186

186. “I might suppose that Napoleon never existed, and it is a fable, but not that the earth did not exist 150 years ago.”



what do I ‘know’ here?

what I have been told –

the latest scientific theory –

do I have cause to doubt it?

right at this minute?

no

is it doubtable?

yes 


© greg t. charlton. 2009.