'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.




Wednesday, June 23, 2010

on certainty 529


529. And one child, for example, will say, of another or of himself, that he already knows what such-and such is called.



children learn from adults –

they learn language use –

and they learn language deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.