'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 16, 2009

on certainty 158


158. Can I make a mistake, for example, in thinking that the words of which this sentence is composed are English words whose meaning I know?



you can be unsure – not mistaken

any so called ‘mistake’ –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


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