'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.




Monday, September 13, 2010

on certainty 656


656. And one can not say that of the proposition that I am called L.W. Nor of the proposition that such-and-such people have calculated such-and-such a problem correctly.



nor in fact of any mathematical proposition

Wittgenstein confuses ‘incontestability’ –

with how a proposition may be used

a proposition may well be used uncritically –

but this is not to say that it is beyond doubt

that it is beyond question



© greg t.charlton. 2010.