'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.




Friday, May 28, 2010

on certainty 484

484. In these cases, then, one says “I know” and mentions how one knows, or at least one can do so.



the claim to know is a claim to authority

beyond authorship –

any claim to authority is pretence

so any account of how you know –

is an account of the steps involved 

in the development of –

your pretence


© greg t. charlton. 2010.