'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 22


22. If I decided to use a new word “red”, how would it come out that it took the place of the word “red”?



the ‘new word’ – if written could be underlined – italicized – here we have a change in emphasis

if spoken – intonation – could well suggest a new meaning



© greg t. charlton. 2014.