'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.




Wednesday, August 18, 2010

on certainty 594


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594. My name is “L.W.” And if someone were to dispute it, I should straightaway make connections with innumerable things which make it certain.



making connections does not make it certain



© greg t. charlton. 2010.