'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, September 05, 2010

on certainty 640

640. Or shall I say the sentence excludes a certain kind of failure?


‘I can’t be making a mistake’ –

what it excludes –

is uncertainty –

and as such is a denial – of propositional reality

and the fact is –

a sentence that denies reality –

has no content –

it is vacuous –

and it is a fraud



© greg t. charlton. 2010.