569. An inner experience cannot show me
that I know something.
Hence, if in spite of that I say, “I know
my name is …”, and yet it is obviously not an empirical proposition,
– – –
the claim to know – as in a claim to
certainty –
is false and pretentious –
and so no experience is relevant
if you drop this rhetorical baggage –
what you have is the basic uncorrupted
assertion –
‘my name is ..’ –
if that proposition is made public –
it is testable
and therefore –
empirical
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
