'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.




Sunday, July 11, 2010

on certainty 548

548. A child must learn the use of colour words before it can ask for the name of a colour.



to learn the use of colour words – is to learn to name colours –

if a child asks for the name of a colour –

it does so because – it doesn’t know what the appropriate usage is –

or it is uncertain – as to the appropriate usage


© greg t. charlton. 2010.