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And if I knew that ten is more than three and suppose someone told me,
“No, three is more than ten, and in proof of that I shall change this rod into
a serpent” and goes and does so and I see this for myself. I will doubt my
knowledge and all that I will have is a wonder as to how he was able to do
what he did. As for the doubt of what I knew, it will not happen.
After these reflections I knew that whatever I do not know in this fashion
and with this mode of certainty is not reliable and infallible knowledge; and
knowledge that is not infallible is not certain knowledge.
1) The Approach of Sophists and Rejecting Knowledge
Thereupon I investigated the various kinds of knowledge I had, and
found myself destitute of all knowledge with this characteristic of infallibility,
except in the case of sensible knowledge [the five senses] and the obvious.
So I said, “Now that despair has come over me, there is no point in
“No, three is more than ten, and in proof of that I shall change this rod into
a serpent” and goes and does so and I see this for myself. I will doubt my
knowledge and all that I will have is a wonder as to how he was able to do
what he did. As for the doubt of what I knew, it will not happen.
After these reflections I knew that whatever I do not know in this fashion
and with this mode of certainty is not reliable and infallible knowledge; and
knowledge that is not infallible is not certain knowledge.
1) The Approach of Sophists and Rejecting Knowledge
Thereupon I investigated the various kinds of knowledge I had, and
found myself destitute of all knowledge with this characteristic of infallibility,
except in the case of sensible knowledge [the five senses] and the obvious.
So I said, “Now that despair has come over me, there is no point in