on certainty 307

307. And here the strange thing is that when I am quite certain of how the words are used, have no doubt about it, I can still give no grounds for my way of going on. If I tried I could give a thousand, but none as certain as the very thing they were supposed to be grounds for.

here we have the argument –

that certainty is groundless

the next step is to see –

that the claim of certainty –

only has rhetorical function

which effectively means –

it is and exercise in deception –

if not delusion

© greg t. charlton. 2010.