'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.



Saturday, January 16, 2010

on certainty 232


232.  “We could doubt every one of these facts, but we could not doubt them all.”

Wouldn’t it more correct to say: “we do not doubt them all”.

Our not doubting them all is simply our manner of judging, and therefore of acting.



we can regard all so called facts as uncertain –

and operate quite effectively with these uncertain facts


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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