'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, December 03, 2009

on certainty 180

180. Or again “I believe…” is an ‘expression’, but not “I know…”



if you see that all propositions are uncertain –

then both ‘I know’ and ‘I believe’ –

are logically unnecessary –

and the only value they have –

is rhetorical


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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