'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.




Friday, July 30, 2010

on certainty 567


567. And now, is my knowledge that I am called L.W. of the same kind as knowledge that water boils at 100 degrees C? Of course, this question is wrongly put.



my knowledge that I am called …

is an assertion

that water boils at 100 degrees C

is an assertion –

and if it is understood that these assertions –

indeed any assertion –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

the question is not –

wrongly put

beyond authorship –

any claim to an authority is rhetorical –

and its point is persuasion

it is a false claim to authority –

its ground is deception –

in or out of context

‘God’ – is the ultimate –

rhetorical devise


© greg t. charlton. 2010.