'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 319


319. But wouldn’t one have to say then, that there is no sharp boundary between propositions of logic and empirical propositions? The lack of sharpness is that boundary between rule and empirical propositions.



how a proposition is described –

depends on the use it is put to

if the task is to decide what can be done –

the proposition is logical

if it is what to do –

the propositions is empirical –

if the task is to stop thinking –

and proceed regardless –

then the propositions is a rule


© greg t. charlton. 2010.