'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, November 03, 2009

on certainty 147


147. The picture of the earth as a ball is a good picture, it proves itself everywhere, it is also a simple picture – in short, we work with it without doubting it.



the idea here –

is that certainty –

runs in the background of our actions –

and we work with it –

without doubting it

the problem is –

if you can’t doubt it –

you can’t know it

and if you can’t know it –

you can’t work with it

if you can’t work with it –

it has no value


© greg t. charlton. 2009.