'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.




Sunday, November 16, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 44


44. What interests us in the sign is what is embodied in the grammar of the sign.



no – in the first place what interests us is the function of the sign –

the grammar of the sign is its propositional history – and its propositional interpretation –

a secondary interest



© greg t. charlton. 2014