on certainty 569

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.