'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, April 02, 2010

on certainty 384


384. Now what kind of sentence is “Nothing in the world…”?



the ‘nothing in the world …’ sentence –

denies that there is a question –

that there is doubt –

a proposition is a proposal – open to question –

open to doubt –

‘nothing in the world …’ –

what kind of sentence is this?

it is a sentence that –

denies the proposition –

denies propositional reality –

denies logic


© greg t.charlton. 2010.