'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.




Friday, December 26, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 103


103. It is only considering the linguistic manifestation of a wish that makes it appear that my whish prefigures the fulfillment. – Because it is the wish that just that were the case. It is in language that wish and fulfillment meet.



the basic logic of it is that a state of affairs is proposed

that you may wish for – or want – that state of affairs –

is logically uninteresting

and whether or not it comes about –

is logically irrelevant

the proposal – regardless of what occurs –

is open to question – open to doubt – uncertain



© greg t. charlton. 2014.