'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.




Thursday, July 01, 2010

on certainty 538

538. The child, I should like to say, learns to react in such-and-such a way, and in so reacting it doesn’t so far know anything. Knowing only begins at a latter level.



to know  – is to describe –

to use description

any description –

any use of any description –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.