'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.




Monday, October 05, 2009

on certainty 112



112. And isn’t that Moore wants to say, when he says he knows these things? – But is his knowing it really what is in question, and not rather that some of these propositions must be solid for us?



yes – his ‘knowing it’ – or anyone’s claim to ‘knowing it’ – is in question – as it should be

‘that some of these propositions must be solid for us’

why?


© greg t. charlton. 2009.