'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, July 23, 2009

on certainty 82


82. What counts as an adequate test of a statement belongs to logic. It belongs to the description of the language-game.



the adequate test of a statement –

will just be –

whatever it is decided –

is an adequate test

it is essentially a contingent matter –

really a question of circumstance –

and for that reason –

uncertain

if logic is a description –

of what you do –

of how you use statements –

yes –

the test – described –

belongs to logic –

bear in mind though –

logic –

as with any description –

or any framework of description –

any use of language –

is  open to question –

open to doubt –

is uncertain


© greg t. charlton. 2009.