on certainty 544

544. Of course I may truthfully say “I know what this colour is called in English”, at the same time as I point (for example) to the colour of fresh blood. But - - -

what you can say is –

‘this colour is called  … in English’

and doing so –

is just an exercise in uncertainty –

for whatever you might say here –

is open to question –

open to doubt

pointing to the colour of fresh blood –

tells no one – anything –

effectively all that does is identify –

what is not said –

which is to say –

what is not known

as to the claim to knowledge –

any such claim is an assertion of an authority

the only actual authority –

is authorship –

and it is unnecessary and irrelevant –

to assert that that you assert

beyond authorship –

any claim to authority –

is false

© greg t. charlton. 2010.