'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.



Sunday, May 30, 2010

on certainty 487


487. What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying that I know it.



there is no proof

saying that you know something –

is all there is to it

at the best it’s hot air

at the worst –

vain deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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