'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.




Saturday, July 04, 2009

on certainty 53


53. So one might grant that Moore was right, if he is interpreted like this: a proposition saying that there is a physical object may have the same logical status as one saying there is a red patch.



the value of a proposition –

will be determined by the context of its use –

which is to say –

its value is uncertain –

and yes – in that respect every proposition –

has the same logical status –

Moore however argued for certainty –

not uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2009.