'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.




Thursday, December 24, 2009

on certainty 205


205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.



if the ground is neither true nor false –

it cannot be assented to or dissented from

therefore –

the ground – whatever it is –

it is not a proposition –

which is to say –

it cannot be asserted

and if so –

it has no value at all

the true is not what is grounded –

the true is what is assented to

why you assent –

to what you assent to -

is always a matter of speculation

if by ‘ground’ you mean

a basis in certainty -

‘the true’ –

is groundless


© greg t. charlton. 2009.