'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 11, 2010

on certainty 285


285. If someone is looking for something and perhaps roots around in a certain place, he shows that he believes that what he is looking for is there.



if he believed what he is looking for is there – he would have no reason to be rooting around –

the reason that he is rooting around is that he doesn’t know where it is



© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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