Wednesday, January 20, 2010

on certainty 244


244. If someone says “I have a body”, he can be asked “Who is speaking here with this mouth?”



the answer will be –

‘I am’

now do we have a mystery here?

the nature of the ‘I’?

the relation of the ‘I’ to the ‘body’?

yes we can go down that path

the really interesting thing is that –

we make a statement like ‘I have a body’ –

and operate with it –

without knowing with any certainty –

what we are talking about –

and it seems we are understood

language on such a view –

simply marks the unknown –

the unknown we operate in –

dare I say –

without any difficulty?


© greg t. charlton. 2010.