'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 18, 2010

on certainty 294


294.  This is how we acquire conviction, this is called ‘being rightly convinced’.



if by ‘this’ – Wittgenstein means –

performing experiments –

quite the opposite is the case –

experiment dispels conviction

for what experiment reveals –

is uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.