'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.




Wednesday, February 03, 2010

on certainty 271


 271.  What is a telling ground for something is not anything I decide.



isn’t this is just epistemological intimidation?

there is a telling ground  – an authority –

it’s not anything I decide – or you decide –

but we should bow to it ?

even though it has no connection to anything we decide –

and therefore anything we do –

or anything we know –

but it’s there?

I mean who is going to buy this rubbish?

the world’s moved on


© greg t. charlton. 2010.