'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, June 04, 2010

on certainty 499


499. I might also put it like this: the ‘law of induction’ can no more be grounded than certain particular propositions concerning the material of experience.



yes

the law of induction is–

in certain contexts –

a customary practise –

or a statement of –

a customary practice

any practice is an exercise in uncertainty –

the ground of any practice –

is the unknown


© greg t. charlton. 2010.