'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.




Friday, June 19, 2009

on certainty 33


33. Thus we expunge the sentences that don’t get us any further



a sentence may drop from use –

from favour

this is not to say that it might not have a rebirth –

in a different setting –

in different circumstances

the matter is uncertain

what sentences we use and when we use them –

is an open matter

in the propositional reality –

nothing gets expunged


© greg t. charlton. 2009.