'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.



Sunday, July 11, 2010

on certainty 550


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550. If someone believes something, we needn’t always be able to answer the question ‘why he believes it’; but if he knows something, then the question “how does he know?” must be capable of being answered. 



there can always be an answer –

is Wittgenstein suggesting any answer will qualify for ‘knowledge’?

if so – he’s right


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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