'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, March 06, 2010

on certainty 323

323. So rational suspicion must have grounds?

We might also say: “the reasonable man believes this”.



a suspicion is an uncertainty

and if a suspicion has a ‘ground’ –

the ground is uncertain –

call that ‘rational’ – if you wish

it is not that ‘the reasonable man believes this’ –

it is rather that the reasonable man –

questions this
                                                                                                                                 

© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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