'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.




Tuesday, March 09, 2010

on certainty 329


329. ‘If he calls that in doubt – whatever “doubt” means here – he will never learn this game.



learning is a process of doubt

without doubt –

there is no learning

so the notion of a game –

that is not open to doubt –

is an argument for –

ignorance


© greg t. charlton. 2010.