'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.




Wednesday, April 07, 2010

on certainty 396


396. In the language-game (2),* can he say that he knows that those are building stones? – “No, but he does know it.”



if it can’t be stated –

it can’t be tested –

and if it can’t be tested –

we are not talking about –

knowledge –

what we are talking about –

is ignorance –

and prejudice


*Philosophical Investigations 1 No. 2 Eds.


© greg t. charlton. 2010.