'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 21, 2010

on certainty 672


672. ‘If I don’t trust this evidence why should I trust any evidence?’



if you trust – if you have trust –

its ground is evidence –

and so –

if the evidence is uncertain –

and all so called ‘evidence’ is –

so too – is your ‘trust’

forget ‘trust’ – and proceed with –

an open and critical mind


© greg t. charlton. 2010.