Unknowability
by: Dana Stamps, II
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even what is most reliable cannot be relied upon.
You humble me when you say my foolproof
argument is untenable because such a person
doesn’t exist to experience it as unfoolproof.
Science will prove itself wrong with a proof
that will be outproven until provability
is proven unprovable and the contradiction
of proving unprovability is proven to go inside
itself in unprovable ways – the proving
and unproving of provability and the unproving
and proving of that’s provability will prove
proof is not proof no matter how you subtlize
a proof for provingness. So
if you know you don’t know, you know.
But you cannot know that, or your knowing proves
you don’t know, so you cannot know you don’t
know
without knowing you know what you’re not
supposed to know to know. You know. No.
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