If I
could paint || painted my impression instead of just describing it in words, I could now point to my
10
picture & say:
“I'm sure that
this was what I saw”.
(Of course the “I'm sure” is really
superfluous.)
But further: I have painted, portra
yed my impression – but have I
portra
yed, projected it correctly?
All justifications you might try to give are idle wheels they don
't drive anything. –
Now this is why the expression “immediate awareness” or
“knowledge” are in this sort of
case misleading
.
The
proposition is not
unquestionable because it rests so securely on
something but there is no question of its resting on anything.
To say that we are
certain
that we have this impression is like saying the earth
rests || is held || rests on something that is firm in
itself.