Philosophical Grammar 45

IV

45. The ostensive definition of signs is not an application of language, but part of the grammar: something like a rule for translation from gesture into a word-language. –

what belongs to grammar are all the conditions necessary for comparing the proposition with reality – all the conditions necessary for its sense

ostensive definition – is a proposal – a proposition – if you will – a non-verbal proposition

it is not a rule for translation – rather a proposal

grammar as such is a proposal –

all the conditions necessary’ – are unknown –

the conditions for the application of language – are proposals

and these proposals – are open to question – open to doubt

comparing propositions with reality?

is comparing propositions with – with propositions (about reality)

grammar as a statement of how language works –

is never finalized

© greg t. charlton. 2014.