'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.



Sunday, July 12, 2009

on certainty 64


64. Compare the meaning of a word with the ‘function’ of an official. And ‘different meanings’ with ‘different functions’.



yes – that is the point

the function of a word –

is just what a word does –

and what it does  –

is an open question –

‘meaning’ –

is this uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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