""If I know something, then I also know that I know it, etc," amounts to: "I know that" means "I am incapable about being wrong about that." But whether I am so must admit of being established objectively."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 20



"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
-Salman Rushdie


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“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”
-Salman Rushdie


8. "The difference between the concept of 'knowing' and the concept of 'being certain' isn't of any great importance at all, except where "I know" is meant to mean: I can't be wrong. In a law-court, for example, "I am certain" could replace "I know" in every piece of testimony. We might even imagine it being forbidden to say "I know" there.
11. "We just do not see how highly specialized the use of "I know" is."
12. "For "I know" seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always forgets the expression, "I thought I knew."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 13













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