'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 25, 2010

on certainty 615

615. Now does that mean: “I can only make judgments at all because things behave thus and thus (as it were, behave kindly)”?



that ‘things behave thus and thus’ – is a judgment –

the ‘ground’ of this judgment –

the ground of judgment –

is uncertainty

and any judgment I make –

will itself be open to question –

open to doubt


 greg t. charlton. 2010.