Saturday, August 28, 2010

on certainty 621


22.4.
621. If anatomy were under discussion I should say: “I know that twelve pairs of nerves lead from the brain.” I have never seen these nerves, and even a specialist will only have observed them in a few specimens. – This is just how the word “know” is correctly used here.



I don’t know this –

but I claim to know

if this is the correct use of ‘know’

then ‘know’ correctly used –

is a deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.