'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 330


330. So here the sentence “I know…” expresses the readiness to believe certain things.



if ‘I know’ is to mean – ‘a readiness to believe’ –

there goes any association of  ‘I know’ with certainty

and if ‘I know’ is to mean – ‘a readiness to believe’ –

then knowledge – is not even a belief

on this view to know –

is being ‘disposed to’ believe –

anything

                                                   
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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