'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.




Monday, January 11, 2010

on certainty 225


 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.



whether it’s one proposition –

or a nest

‘holding fast’ –

amounts to –

not questioning –

not doubting

it amounts to –

being ignorant


© greg t. charlton. 2010.