504. Whether I know something depends on whether the evidence backs me up or
contradicts me. For to say one knows one has a pain means nothing.
‘evidence’ is nothing in a claim to know –
unless the claim to know –
is presupposed –
in the claim to evidence –
and the claim to know –
as a claim to an authority –
beyond authorship –
has no logical value –
it’s only value is rhetorical –
the point of evidence –
is persuasion –
‘evidence’ –
is rhetoric
