'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.



Tuesday, January 26, 2010

on certainty 253


253. At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded.



there is no well-founded belief –

all belief is unfounded –

which is to say –

all belief is open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


© greg t.charlton. 2010.
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