'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 568

568. If one of my names were used only very rarely, then it might happen that I did not know it. It goes without saying that that I know my name, only because, like everyone else I use it over and over again.



if ‘knowing’ –

means anything here –

 it means only –

‘awareness of use’ –

which amounts to –

awareness of –

uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.