'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.




Friday, August 27, 2010

on certainty 619


619. Am I to say; even if an irregularity in natural events did suddenly occur, that wouldn’t have to throw me out of the saddle. I might make inferences then just as before, but whether one would call that “induction” is another question.



you’re always in the saddle –

and the ride is uncertain

any description of what you do –

is open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


© greg t.charlton. 2010.