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'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.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
on certainty 585
585. But doesn’t ‘I know that that’s a
tree” say something different from “that’s a tree”?
yes – ‘I know that that’s a tree’ – saddles
a perfectly straightforward assertion –
