'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 20, 2009

on certainty 200


200. Really “The proposition is either true or false” only means that it must be possible to decide for or against it. But this does not say what the ground for such a decision is like.



that’s exactly right –

the ‘ground’ for such a decision is 

is whatever it is said to be

that is however the decision is underwritten –

by whoever underwrites it –

if indeed it is underwritten at all


© greg t. charlton. 2009.