'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.




Saturday, February 27, 2010

on certainty 309


309. Is it that rule and empirical proposition merge into one another?



as far as the ‘empirical proposition’ goes –

propositions about how the world is –

propositions about understanding –

and dealing with an uncertain reality –

there are no rules

the rule is a devise you use –

for game playing


© greg t.charlton. 2010.