'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.




Monday, June 14, 2010

on certainty 511


511. And yet this direct taking-hold corresponds to a sureness, not to a knowing.

But don’t I take hold of a thing’s name like that, too?



well here we have a description of ‘this direct taking-hold’ –

as a ‘sureness’

this description –

like a thing’s name –

is open to question –

open to doubt


greg t. charlton. 2010.