'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.




Wednesday, June 30, 2010

on certainty 536

536. Naturally, the child who is just learning to speak has not yet got the concept is called at all



‘the concept is called’ –

is an account or explanation of an action

that is to say –

it is a description of an action –

the action of naming

and yes – its application requires –

a degree of philosophic and linguistic sophistication –

that a child learning to speak –

does not have


© greg t. charlton. 2010.