'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, April 05, 2010

on certainty 391


391. Imagine a language game “When I call you, come in through the door”. In any ordinary  case, a  doubt whether there really is a door will be impossible.



fair enough to assume –

there is a door

nevertheless an assumption

and like any assumption –

uncertain –

open to contingencies –

open to question –

open to doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2010.