'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 216


216. The proposition “It is written”.



‘it’ –

is the unknown –

and yes –

‘it’ is written –

which is to say –

‘it’ is described –

so –

on this reading –

‘it is written’

is a meta proposition –

it describes 

what a proposition does –

or at least –

it is a proposal

to this end


© greg t. charlton. 2010.