'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 25, 2010

on certainty 252


252. But it isn’t just that I believe in this way that I have two hands, but that every reasonable person does.



believe whatever you want to believe –

your belief – if it works for you –

will work without the appeal to an ‘authority’ –

be that ‘reasonable people’ – or whatever

such an appeal is rhetorical –

it has no logical value


© greg t. charlton. 2010.