'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, May 12, 2010

on certainty 456


456. If, therefore, I doubt or am uncertain about this being my hand (in whatever sense), why not in that case about the meaning of these words as well?


I could well question the meaning of these words –

but nevertheless use them quite successfully and happily –

without the delusion of certainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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