'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 21, 2009

on certainty 201


201. Suppose someone were to ask: “Is it really right for us to rely on the evidence of our memory (or our sense) as we do?”



isn’t it rather that we understand that memory and sense are unreliable –

and that we work with what we have?


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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