'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.




Thursday, May 20, 2010

on certainty 470

470. Why is there no doubt that I am called L.W? It does not seem at all like something that one could establish at once beyond doubt. One would not think that it is one of the indubitable truths.

5.4.

[Here there is still a gap in my thinking. And I doubt whether it will ever be filled now.]



he says there is no doubt that he is called L.W. –

how could he know this?

the gap in his thinking is the unknown –

and he is right to doubt that it will be filled


© greg t. charlton. 2010.