'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 11, 2010

on certainty 506


506. “If my memory deceives me here it can deceive me anywhere.”

If I don’t know that, how do I know if my words mean what I believe they mean?



memory is uncertain

there is no deception in uncertainty

do I know if my words mean what I believe they mean?

are my beliefs certain?

no


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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