'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.



Friday, August 07, 2009

on certainty 98


98. But if someone were to say “So logic too is empirical science” he would be wrong. Yet this is right: the same proposition may get treated at one time as something to test by experience, at another as a rule of testing.



how a proposition is described – depends on how it is used –

there is no definite use – no definite description


© greg t. charlton. 2009.
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