on certainty 661

661. How might I be mistaken in my assumption that I was never on the moon?

if you are certain – you can’t be mistaken

and if you are uncertain –

what you face is not the mistake –

but rather – possibility

the possibility of –

different perspectives –

different  descriptions –

different assessments

so certain or uncertain –

logically speaking –

the notion of the mistake –

makes no sense

being mistaken or not –

is all about claiming an authority –

you don’t have –

for the purpose of persuasion

‘the mistake’ –

is an exercise in rhetoric

as to the assumption –

that I was never on the moon?

any assumption –

 is open to question –

open to doubt –

and therefore uncertain

but there is the question –

what’s the point of entertaining –

useless propositions?

© greg t. charlton. 2010.