'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.



Tuesday, August 18, 2009

on certainty 109

109. “An empirical proposition can be tested” (we say). But how? and through what?



what constitutes a ‘test’ –

will be decided –

by  whoever does the test

any so called ‘test’-

will be a decision to proceed –

in a certain manner


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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