> the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, was an utter surprise to him.
Then it follows there are two false epistemological claims in the text. First by the judge:
>He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day.
This is false, as you correctly reason, since a knock on Friday would come as no surprise (at the time it occurred).
The second false claim, this time by the narrator, reinforces the first:
>Everything the judge said came true.
Not every claim the judge asserted was tested by the recounted physical events: There was no knock on Friday.
> the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, was an utter surprise to him.
Then it follows there are two false epistemological claims in the text. First by the judge:
>He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day.
This is false, as you correctly reason, since a knock on Friday would come as no surprise (at the time it occurred).
The second false claim, this time by the narrator, reinforces the first:
>Everything the judge said came true.
Not every claim the judge asserted was tested by the recounted physical events: There was no knock on Friday.