'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.



Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 29


29. Is the meaning really only the use of the word? Isn’t it the way this use meshes with our life?



however we underwrite a term – in this case ‘meaning’ – with ‘the way this use meshes with our life’ 

the underwriting invites exploration



© greg t. charlton. 2014.
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