'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 22, 2010

on certainty 562

562. At any rate it is important to imagine a language in which our concept of ‘knowledge’ does not exist.



if by imagining a language –

in which our concept of knowledge does exist –

Wittgenstein means a language without certainty –

you don’t have to imagine anything 

it’s what we have


© greg t. charlton. 2010.