'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.




Wednesday, January 06, 2010

on certainty 219


219.  There cannot be any doubt about it for me as a reasonable person. – That’s it. –



so the idea is –

give yourself the cover –

of a ‘reasonable person’ –

and then claim –

that ‘there cannot be any doubt about it’ –

‘it’ being whatever it is you say –

you are certain about

really – this is just rubbish –

rhetorical rubbish –

and not worth commenting on –

except for the fact –

that there are so many philosophers –

who believe this garbage –

and promulgate it


© greg t. charlton. 2010.