'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, January 01, 2010

on certainty 213


213. Our ‘empirical propositions’ do not form a homogeneous mass.



propositions defined as ‘empirical’ –

will by definition be of the same kind

the question is –

just how useful is any such definition?

perhaps it gives someone –

a sense of order –

where in reality –

there is none

the definition of any proposition –

will be a description of its use –

and any such description –

will be open to question –

open to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2010.