'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 620


620. In particular circumstances one says “you can rely on this”; and this assurance may be justified or unjustified in every day language, and it may also count as justified even when what was foretold does not occur. A language-game exists in which this assurance is employed.



yes – it is the language-game of rhetoric


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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