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'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.
Friday, November 20, 2009
on certainty 165
165. One child might say to another: “I
know that the earth is already hundreds of years old” and that would mean: I
have learnt it.
