'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, December 24, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 101


101. Doesn’t the system of language provide me with a medium in which the proposition is no longer dead? – “Even if the expression of the wish is the wish, still the whole language isn’t present during this expression.” But that is not necessary.



the idea here is that the proposition standing alone – is in some sense dead?

the proposition – the proposal – is live 

relative to the proposition – it’s ‘the whole language’ that is dead –

this ‘whole language’ – is finally a theory – if you like – of the proposition – of the proposal –

and I would suggest in the act of proposing – the act of expression – quite irrelevant to it

it’s a back story



© greg t. charlton. 2014.