'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.



Monday, July 13, 2009

on certainty 65


65. When language-games change, then there is a change in concepts, and with the concepts the meanings of the words change.



conceptualizing –

is a way of describing usage

there is no fixed description –

therefore no fixed concepts

and meaning –

whether you have a change of usage or not –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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