'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 20, 2010

on certainty 560


560. And the concept of knowing is coupled with that of the language-game.



knowing is dealing in uncertainty

the language-game is the game of uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.