'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.



Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 20


20. As if words didn’t also have functions quite different from the naming of tables, chairs, etc. Here is the origin of the bad expression: a fact is a complex of objects.



the fact is here – that ‘a fact is a complex of objects’- may well have function in a particular context

the real point here is that legislating  about what functions words have  or do not have – is epistemological short-sightedness – at the very least



© greg t. charlton. 2014.
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