'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 12, 2009

on certainty 123


123. Wherever I look, I find no ground for doubting that….



if by ‘a ground for doubting’ –

you mean that which cannot be doubted –

then there is no ground –

for any proposition –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

and therefore

doubt is groundless

the issue is not where do you look?

but rather do you think?

do you question what is before you?

if you do –

you will see possibilities –

if you don’t –

you won’t


© greg t. charlton. 2009.