All entries for Tuesday 20 December 2005
December 20, 2005
Certificate of Authenticity
If you buy something, and it has a Certificate of Authenticity, how do you know the certificate is authentic? You'd need a Certificate of Authenticity to prove that the Certificate of Authenticity for the item is authentic, but then how do you know that certificate is authentic? You'd end up with Certificates of Authenticity all the way down and there'd be more certificate than item.
I worry about these things…