'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.




Monday, December 15, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 87


87. It seems as if the expectation and the fact satisfying the expectation fitted together somehow, Solids and hollows. – Expectation is not related to its satisfaction in the same way as hunger is related to its satisfaction.



‘somehow’ is the point

an expectation – is uncertain – satisfaction is uncertain

a solid cylinder that fills a hollow cylinder – is this satisfaction?

if it is decided that it is – if it is defined as a such –

any decision – any definition – is open to question –

open to doubt – uncertain

even the so called ‘satisfaction’ of hunger –

can be revisited



© greg t. charlton. 2014.