361. But I might also say: It has been
revealed to me by God that it is so. God has taught me that this is my foot.
And therefore if anything happened that seemed to conflict with this knowledge
I should have to regard that as
deception.
Wittgenstein –
in going for the ‘God argument’ –
is at least coming clean on the fact –
that the argument for knowledge –
is an argument for authority
yes – there is authority –
the authority of authorship
however beyond authorship –
any claim to authority is false –
and there lies the deception
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
