'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 368


368. If someone says he will recognize no experience as proof of the opposite, that is after all a decision. It is possible that he will act against it.



yes –

and the reason that it is possible that he will act against it –

is just that the ground of his decision – of any decision –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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