'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, November 09, 2009

on certainty 152


152. I do not explicitly learn the propositions that stand fast for me. I can discover them subsequently like the axis around which a body rotates. The axis is not fixed in the sense that anything holds it fast, but the movement around it determines its immobility.



yes you’ll figure out the propositions that work for you –

but there is no certainty here –

what works for you will be a function of circumstance –

and circumstance can and does change


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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