'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.



Sunday, October 18, 2009

on certainty 131


131. No, experience is not the ground for our game of judging. Nor is it an outstanding success.



the ground of our judging –

is uncertainty

‘experience’ – is one description –

of uncertainty

the notion of ‘success’ here –

is rhetorical


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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