'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 30, 2009

on certainty 175


175.  “I know it” I say to someone else; and here there is a justification. But there is none for my belief.



‘I know it’ I say to someone else –

is to just to try to persuade another –

of an authority –

you don’t have –

it’s an exercise in rhetoric

and deception

as to the belief –

Wittgenstein is right

there is no justification


© greg t.charlton. 2009.