'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 437


437. I am inclined to say: “That cannot be false.” That is interesting; but what consequences has it?



truth and falsity –

are a matter of assent and dissent

any proposition –

can be assented to –

or dissented from

to say  a proposition –

cannot be false –

is stupid –

such a statement –

is ignorant in the extreme –

and characteristic of –

a bigot


© greg t.charlton. 2010.