'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.




Tuesday, August 10, 2010

on certainty 577


577. “My knowledge of my name is absolutely definite.”

I would refuse to entertain any argument that tried to show the opposite!

And what does “I would refuse” mean? Is it the expression of an intention?



yes – an intention – to be ignorant –

to stay ignorant –

even so –

you can’t know with certainty –

what you would do –

the ground of all intention –

is uncertainty


© greg t.charlton. 2010.