'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.



Monday, March 22, 2010

on certainty 365


365. If someone replied: “I also know that it will never seem to me as if anything contradicted that knowledge”, – what could we gather from that, except that he himself had no doubt that it would never happen? –



if he had no doubt that it would never happen –

what we would gather from that –

is that he is a fool


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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