'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, November 26, 2009

on certainty 171


171. A principal ground for Moore to assume that he never was on the moon is that no one ever was on the moon or could come there; and this we believe on grounds of what we learn.



what we learn is uncertain

the pretence of certainty –

is a delusion –

or a deception

Moore was either deluded –

or deceptive


© greg .t. charlton. 2009.
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