'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, August 27, 2010

on certainty 618


618. In that game it would seem as if the language-game must ‘show’ the facts that make it possible. (But that’s not how it is.)

Then can one say that only a certain regularity in occurrences makes induction possible? The ‘possible’ would of course have to be ‘logically possible’.



the language game is the showing –

the language-game is the game of proposals

‘facts’ are accepted  proposals –

proposals – accepted or not –

are uncertain

‘a certain regularity in occurrence’ –

is a description of how things are –

any description –is open to question –

open to doubt

if the basis of induction –

is the description –

‘a certain regularity in occurrence’

then the basis of induction –

is uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.