'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.




Tuesday, July 06, 2010

on certainty 543


543. A child can learn the names of people long before he can say in any form whatever: “I know this one’s name; I don’t know that one yet.”



yes – the deception of ‘I know’ – comes later –

as does ‘I don’t know’ –

the argument against this deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.