'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.




Tuesday, September 07, 2010

on certainty 647


647. There is a difference between a mistake for which, as it were, a place is prepared in the game, and a complete irregularity that happens as an exception.



there are no mistakes –

the game is the game of uncertainty –

the idea of the mistake –

along with that of certainty –

of certain knowledge –

is what has corrupted epistemology –

and rendered the language-game –

nothing more than –

a rhetorical ploy


© greg t. charlton. 2010.