'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.



Monday, August 09, 2010

on certainty 575


575. Thus the purpose of the phrase “I know” might be to indicate where I can be relied on; but where that’s what it’s doing the usefulness of this sign must emerge from experience.



where I can be relied on –

well the thing is – at best this is an uncertain matter –

and experience shows this


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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