'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.




Wednesday, July 15, 2009

on certainty 68


68. The question is: what is the logician to say here?



the logician would say 

that what we have 

in the above example –

is two different accounts –

of the one state of affairs

the logician would also say 

that what counts as true –

is what is assented to –

and that what counts as false –

is what is dissented from

and further –

the logician would say 

independent of any account –

the state of affairs –

is unknown

therefore –

any account offered –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2009.