'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.




Sunday, December 13, 2009

on certainty 192


192. To be sure there is justification; but justification comes to an end.



there is no justification –

there is simply argument from one proposition to another –

with the latter serving as an ‘authority’ –

for the former –

(the only ‘authority’ – is authorship)

this is just a language-game –

and it it’s name is –

rhetoric


© greg t.charlton. 2009.