'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, October 30, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 13

13. When someone interprets, or understands, a sign in one sense or another, what he is doing is taking a step in a calculus. – “Thought” sometimes means a process which may accompany the utterance of a sentence and sometimes the sentence itself in the system of language.



when one interprets – one proposes –

when one understands – one engages with uncertainty

the proposition as thought –

is then the proposition made public



© greg t. charlton. 2014.