'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 295


295. So hasn’t one, in this sense, a proof of the proposition? But that the same thing has happened again is not proof of it; though we do say it gives us the right to assume it.



if you assume proof

where there is none –

then what you are involved in –

is pretense –

and deception

© greg t. charlton. 2010.