'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 30, 2010

on certainty 535


535. The child knows what something is called if he can reply correctly to the question “what is that called?”



who determines what is correct?

someone other than the child

and what is their authority based on?

one way or another –

nothing other than –

it’s assertion


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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