'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.



Thursday, January 28, 2010

on certainty 257



257. If someone said to me that he doubted whether he had a body I should take him to be a half-wit. But I shouldn’t know what it would mean to try and convince him that he had one. And if I had said something, and that had removed his doubt, I should not know how or why.



yes – face to face with not-knowing


© greg t.charlton. 2010
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