on certainty 593

593. Even when one can replace “I know” by “It is …” still one cannot replace the negation of the one with the negation of the other.

With “I don’t know …” a new element enters our language-games.

in an ‘I know game’ –

the denial – ‘I don’t know’ –

takes you out of the game –

logically speaking –

‘I don’t know’ –

is a rejection of the game

if the language-game –

is not loaded up –

with the rhetoric –

and deception –

that is –‘I know’ –

then there will be no need –

for the rejection of it –

no need for –

‘I don’t know’

© greg t. charlton. 2010.