'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, January 03, 2010

on certainty 215


215. Here we see that the idea of ‘agreement with reality’ does not have any clear application.



reality without description –

is unknown

when you put up a proposition –

when you propose

you defy reality –

defy the unknown

it is not that ‘agreement with reality’ –

‘does not have any clear application’ –

it has no application

what we have –

if we have agreement –

is propositions agreeing with –

propositions

and even that is 

open to question –

open to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2010.