'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 09, 2010

on certainty 280


280. After he has seen this and this and heard that and that, he is not in a position to doubt whether…



it is just when you have seen this and heard that – and that –

that you are in position to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2010.