'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, September 01, 2010

on certainty 631

631. “I can’t be making a mistake about it” simply characterizes one kind of assertion.



yes – the ignorant kind


© greg t. charlton. 2010.