82. “How must we make the grammatical rules for words if they are to
give a sentence sense?”
A proposition shows the possibility of the state of affairs it
describes. “Possible” here means the same as “conceivable”; representable in a
particular system of propositions.
The proposition “I can imagine such and such a colour transition
connects the linguistic representation with another form of representation; it
is a proposition of grammar.
“How must we make the grammatical rules for words if they are to give a
sentence sense?”
can anyone say – definitively – what gives a sentence sense?
it is no good appealing to grammatical rules – that just moves the
question on –
i.e. what gives grammatical rules sense – for surely they must have
sense – if they pass it on to sentences –
and just by the way – isn’t
a grammatical rule – a sentence?
so I think in logical terms we can forget about grammatical rules –
they are really no more than the attempt to articulate sense –
with the pretence of ‘authority’ – though no one has ever really
explained – just where the authority of these rules resides
just what sense amounts to – in whatever circumstance – is open to
question
frankly I think we recognize sense – or we have sense – without knowing
what it is
and any ‘explanation’ – is really just a reassertion of the fact of
sense
‘A proposition shows the possibility of the state of affairs it
describes. “Possible” here means the same as “conceivable”; representable in a
particular system of propositions.’?
in so far as a proposition is open to question – open to doubt – it is –
it can be – an exploration of possibility
what is ‘possible’ – is what in the end is actually proposed – in any
circumstance
as to ‘conceivable’ – well that – like any other conception – any other
proposal – is itself a open to question –
what we deal with is just what is put forward – and in any circumstance
who knows what that might be?
representable in a particular system of propositions?
any ‘system’ – is just some organizing principle – a proposal –
bad luck if you put forward a proposition that doesn’t fit someone’s
system –
not only are you excluded from the system –
it seems here that your proposition is regarded as – not conceivable –
not possible
a bad start to the day
© greg t. charlton. 2014.