'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, February 04, 2010

on certainty 273


273. But when does one say of something that it is certain?

For there can be dispute whether something is certain; I mean when something is objectively certain.

There are countless general empirical propositions that cannot count as certain for us.



if you say something is certain –

you’ve stopped thinking about it


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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