'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 489


489. For what reply does one make to someone who says “I believe it merely strikes you as if you knew it”?



if you want to convince them –

that you do know –

you can attempt to persuade them –

with whatever arguments you have

in short – all you can do is –

ramp up the rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2010.