549. It would be wrong to say that I can
only say “I know that there is a chair there” when there is a chair there. Of
course it isn’t true unless there is, but I have a right to say this if I am
sure there is chair there, even if I am wrong.
[Pretensions are a mortgage which burdens a
philosopher’s capacity to think.]
so you can make claims to knowledge – even
when you are wrong –
you have a ‘right’ to be sure – even if you
are wrong –
and here is a perfect example of where
pretension has burdened a philosopher’s capacity to think