'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, February 02, 2010

on certainty 269


269. Am I more certain that I have never been on the moon than that I have never been in Bulgaria? Why am I so sure? Well I know I have never been in the neighbourhood – for example I have never been in the Balkans.



if you are ‘more certain’ of one thing than another –

then you are not certain of either


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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