'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, July 09, 2009

on certainty 59


59. ‘I know’ is here a logical insight. Only realism can’t be proved by means of it



‘I know’ –

has no logical function –

its function is rhetorical  

if it is an ‘insight’ –

it’s an insight into –

persuasion and deception


© greg t.charlton. 2009.
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