'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 25, 2010

on certainty 565

565. But here there isn’t yet any question of any ‘knowledge’ that this is called a “slab”, this “a  pillar”, etc.



even if this is called a ‘slab – this ‘a pillar’ –

there is no question of ‘knowledge’ –

what you have is naming –

and the only issue regarding any name – any mark or any sign –

is its utility –

that is a matter of circumstance –

and that is –

uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.