'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 24, 2010

on certainty 614


614. That is to say: if I were contradicted on all sides and told that this person’s name was not what I had always known it was (and here I use “know” here intentionally), then in that case the foundation of all judging would be taken away from me.



your assertion –

and the assertions that contradict your assertion –

are proposals

open to question – open to doubt –

uncertain

the foundation of all judging –

is uncertainty –

and all judgments made –

are open to question –

open to doubt –

uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2010.