'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 28, 2010

on certainty 439

439. Even the statement “I know that behind this door is a landing and the stairway down to the ground floor” only sounds so convincing because everyone takes it for granted that I know it.



that is to say no-one questions it

if that is the case –

on this view –

knowledge –

is what is not questioned –

and therefore

knowledge is –

ignorance
                                                                                                                            

© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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