'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 22, 2009

on certainty 80


80. The truth of my statements is the test of my understanding of these statements.



the truth of my statements –

why I assent to the propositions that I do –

is never beyond question –

never beyond doubt

no test is ever complete


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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