'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 25, 2010

on certainty 306


306. “I don’t know if this is a hand.” But do you know what the word “hand” means? And don’t say “I know what it means now for me”. And isn’t it an empirical fact – that this word is used like this?



‘But do you know what the word hand means?’

I know that it has various uses

and yes –

however it’s used –

is an empirical fact


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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