'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 227


227. “Is that something that one can forget?”



yes –

but if it is forgotten –

you can’t say-

‘I have forgotten it’-

for to say this –

you would have to remember ‘it’ –

or something of it

if it’s actually forgotten –

it doesn’t present –

it’s not there


© greg t. charlton. 2010.