'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.




Thursday, January 01, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 112


112. We are as – it were – surprised, not at anyone’s knowing the future, but at his being able to prophesy at all (right or wrong).



what we ‘know’ – is what we propose –

and what we propose is open to question – open to doubt – is uncertain

past present or future



© greg t. charlton. 2015.