552. Do I know that I am now sitting in a
chair? – Don’t I know it?! In the present circumstances no one is going to say
that I know this; but no more will he say, for example, that I am conscious.
Nor will one normally say this of the passers-by in the street.
But now, even if one doesn’t say it, does
that make it untrue??
the claim to knowledge is a claim to an
authority –
yes you are the author of your statement –
but that is as far as your authority goes
if your claim to authority –
is just that you are the author of your
statement –
then it is irrelevant
if you are claiming an authority beyond
authorship –
then the claim is false
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
