'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.



Thursday, May 21, 2009

on certainty 2

2. From it seeming to me – or to everyone – to be so, it doesn’t follow that it is so.

What we can ask is whether it can make sense to doubt it.



saying something seems to be the case –

is to regard it as uncertain

any proposal as to what is the case –

is open to question –

open to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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