'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.




Sunday, December 21, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 94


94. When I expect someone, – what happens?

What does the process of wanting to eat an apple consist in?



when you expect someone – what will happen?

you don’t know

what does the process of wanting to eat an apple consist in?

to want to eat an apple is to propose to eat an apple

now what does that proposal consist in – amount to?

well – there will be – there can be – various accounts given –

and any such account will be open to question –

open to doubt –

uncertain



© greg t. charlton. 2014.