'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, December 07, 2009

on certainty 187


187. “Do you know that the earth existed then?” – “Of course I know that. I have it from someone who certainly knows all about it.”



this makes it perfectly clear –

that the ground of ‘knowledge’ –

is a supposed authority –

and all that amounts to –

is someone’s assertion

or rhetoric –                                                                                                                                  

and someone else’s –

gullibility


© greg t. charlton. 2010.