'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.



Friday, January 15, 2010

on certainty 230


230. We are asking ourselves: what do we do with a statement “I know…” For it is not a question of mental processes and mental states.

And that is how one must decide whether something is knowledge or not.



any statement can function as knowledge –

if it has a use –

and if it is held open to question


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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