'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 23, 2010

on certainty 366


366.  Suppose it were forbidden to say “I know” and only allowed to say “I believe I know”?



to say ‘I believe I know’ –

is to say I am uncertain –

about my so called knowledge

however –

if it is understood that any assertion made –

is uncertain –

‘I believe I know’ –

is irrelevant and unnecessary

  
© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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