'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, April 27, 2010

on certainty 436


436. Is God bound by our knowledge? Are a lot of our statements incapable of falsehood? For that is what we want to say.



our knowledge is uncertain

therefore –

nothing is bound by it

the truth or falsity of a proposition –

is a matter of assent or dissent

any statement –

any proposition –

can be assented to –

or dissented from

and any act of assent or dissent –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.