'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.




Saturday, July 10, 2010

on certainty 547

547. On cannot yet say to a child who is just beginning to speak and use the words “red” and “blue”: “Come on, you know what this colour is called!”



yes – for a child to be able to deal with –

‘come on, you know what this colour is called!’ –

it must already have been inducted into –

the deception that is knowledge


© greg t. charlton. 2010.