'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.




Friday, December 18, 2009

on certainty 197


197. It would be nonsense to say that we regard something as sure evidence because it is certainly true.



well it would be repetitive –

for to say you regard evidence –

 as ‘sure’ –

is to say you regard it –

as certainly true

the nonsense –

is in regarding anything –

any proposal –

as sure –

any proposition –

as certainly true


© greg t. charlton. 2009.