'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, June 03, 2010

on certainty 495

495. One might simply say “O rubbish!” to someone who wanted to make objections to the propositions that are beyond doubt. That is, not to reply to him but admonish him.



Wittgenstein is being honest here –

he has no argument against doubt –

all he has is authoritarian rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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