'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.




Thursday, August 26, 2010

on certainty 617


617. Certain events would put me into a position in which, I could not go on with the old language-game any further. In which I was torn away from the sureness of the game.

Indeed, doesn’t it seem obvious that the possibility of a language-game is conditioned by certain facts?



any language-game – is a response to uncertainty –

and as such is – uncertain –

sureness is pretence

a fact is an accepted interpretation of a state of affairs –

any interpretation is open to question –

open to doubt

that the possibility of a language-game –

is conditioned by facts –

is to say that –

the possibility of a language-game –

is conditioned by –

uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.