'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.



Saturday, May 23, 2009

on certainty 5


5. Whether a proposition can turn out false after all depends on what I make count as determinants for that proposition.



a proposition is false – if I dissent from it

what  I make count as determinants –

is the argument for my dissent


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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