'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, March 05, 2010

on certainty 318

12.3.51
318.  ‘The question doesn’t arise at all.’ Its answer would characterize a method. But there is no sharp boundary between methodological propositions and propositions within a method.



the question arises – if the question is asked –

and if its answer –

would characterize a method –

then presumably the question –

would be a question of method

and yes –

‘there is no sharp boundary between methodological propositions and propositions within a method’

it’s all a question of context and use

every proposition characterizes a method –

a way of going about things

and any proposition can be a proposition within a method

within a propositional framework

if what you are doing involves a number of propositions –

how you organize –

will determine which proposition – as it were – leads –

or underpins –

and which propositions – follow –

or function as support

what is what here –

will be determined by the task at hand –

and might well be a fluid matter –

any working propositional organization

will be open to question –

open to doubt –

propositional conception and action –

gets its vitality –

from uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.