'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.



Friday, September 10, 2010

on certainty 652


652. Now I can prophesy that men will never throw over the present arithmetical propositions, never say at last they know how the matter stands? Yet would that justify a doubt on our part?



you don’t know –

what propositions men will use in the future –

and you don’t know –

what they will say about how the matter stands

and because you don’t know –

there is doubt


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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