'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, May 18, 2010

on certainty 466


466. Thus it seems to me I have known something the whole time, and yet there is no meaning in saying so, in uttering this truth.



the claim of knowledge is rhetorical –

rhetoric is not without meaning

but if you are not trying to convince anyone of anything –

then there is no point to –

propagating the deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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