'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.




Saturday, February 06, 2010

on certainty 276


276. We believe, so to speak, that this great building exists, and then we see, now here, now there, one or another small corner of it.



this belief is not unlike any other – it is uncertain –

and we operate quite effectively with uncertain beliefs


© greg t.charlton. 2010.