'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 642


642.But suppose someone produced the scruple: what if I suddenly as it were woke up and said “Just think I’ve been imagining I was called L.W!”------well who says that I don’t wake up once again and call this an extraordinary fancy, and so on?



yes –

if that happens – it happens –

logically though –
                                                                                                                                   
all that counts is assertion  

affirmation and denial

as to the why and wherefore

of any assertion –

all you can do is –

speculate                                                                                                                               


© greg t.charlton. 2010.