'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 193


193. What does this mean: the truth of a proposition is certain?



a proposition is a proposal –

a proposal is uncertain

and so to say –

that the truth of a proposition is certain

means that –

it is not a proposition

where you have the claim of certainty –

what you have –

is a statement masquerading –

as a proposition

or if you like –

a proposition –

that has been entirely corrupted –

by the way it is held –

by the way it is used


© greg t. charlton. 2009.