'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.




Friday, March 12, 2010

on certainty 334

334. That is to say: only in such-and-such circumstances does a reasonable person doubt that.



a reasonable person is one who questions –

any circumstance is open to question


© greg t. charlton. 2010.