'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 258


258. I do not know how the sentence “I have a body” is to be used.


That doesn’t unconditionally apply to the proposition that I have always been on or near the surface of the earth.



if you don’t have a use for ‘I have a body’ –

don’t use it

and if you have a conditional use for the proposition –

‘I have always been on or near the surface of the earth’ –

use it –

when the conditions are right

as to knowledge –

your knowledge is uncertain –

so -

keep an open mind –

on propositions –

use –

and conditions


© greg t. charlton. 2010.