'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.



Saturday, May 01, 2010

on certainty 445


445. But if I say “I have two hands”, what can I add to indicate reliability? At the most that the circumstances are the ordinary ones.



all that you can add –

to indicate reliability –

will be rhetoric

‘circumstance’ –

ordinary or not –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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