'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.



Sunday, August 29, 2010

on certainty 623


623. What is odd is that in such a case I always feel like saying (although it is wrong): “I know that – so far as I can know such a thing.” That is incorrect, but something right is hidden behind it.

    
                                                                                                                                
‘I know – in so far as I can know such a thing’ –

really just points to the uncertainty in any claim to knowledge

it is the unknown – that is hidden behind it


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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