Belief is attributed to a person on the basis of his conformity with a dispositional stereotype; law is attributed to the world at large as an inhuman belief. Knowledge traverses the distinction between human and inhuman, signifying their attunement. But where a person knows something without believing it, the inhuman encroaches on the human without the person's consent. For example, when a person can cite the law of the land while refusing to obey it. Here, the world at large surpasses what the person believes, sometimes to the person's peril, and sometimes to its own. A person can disobey the law of gravity and plunge to his death; a state can legislate against a person's interests and be overthrown.
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