'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.



Saturday, December 05, 2009

on certainty 184


184. “It is certain that we didn’t arrive on this planet from another one hundred years ago. “ Well it’s as certain as such things are. 



‘as certain as such things are’ –

means in reality the matter is uncertain

what this show that the claim of certainty –

can only be regarded as –

an exercise in rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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