on certainty 582

582. “I know that” may mean I am quite familiar with it – or again it is certainly so.

if ‘I know that’ means ‘I am quite familiar with it’ –

‘I am quite familiar with it’ –

will do the trick –

and there’s no reason to use the phrase –

‘I know that’

and furthermore –

being ‘quite familiar with it’ –

is to be acquainted with it –

‘knowledge by acquaintance’ –

is incomplete and uncertain knowledge

if ’I know that’ means –

‘it is certainly so’ –

then ‘I know that’ –

is a statement of deception –

and has no place –

in honest dealing

© greg t. charlton. 2010.