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'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.
Friday, February 12, 2010
on certainty 287
23.9.50
287. The squirrel does not infer by
induction that it is going to need stores next winter as well. And no more do
we need a law of induction to justify our actions or our predictions.