'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.



Thursday, October 22, 2009

on certainty 136


136.  When Moore says he knows such and such, he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing; propositions that is, which have a peculiar logical role in the system of empirical propositions.
 


when Moore says he knows such and such –

he is claiming an authority for his propositions

the only authority he has –

is authorship –

it is the same authority anyone has –

who asserts –

anything


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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