'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.




Saturday, August 28, 2010

on certainty 621


22.4.
621. If anatomy were under discussion I should say: “I know that twelve pairs of nerves lead from the brain.” I have never seen these nerves, and even a specialist will only have observed them in a few specimens. – This is just how the word “know” is correctly used here.



I don’t know this –

but I claim to know

if this is the correct use of ‘know’

then ‘know’ correctly used –

is a deception


© greg t. charlton. 2010.