95. Intention and intentionality. –
“The thought that p is the case doesn’t presuppose that it is the case:
yet I can’t think that something is red if the colour red does not exist.” Here
we mean the existence of a red sample as
part of our language.
‘The thought that p is the case doesn’t presuppose that it is the case’?
the thought that p is the proposal
that p –
the proposal that p is the case – obviously doesn’t presuppose that it is the case
a proposition is a proposal –
open to question – open to doubt – uncertain
‘that p’ – is uncertain
‘yet I can’t think that something is red if the colour red does not
exist’?
what exists is what is proposed –
if the color red is proposed – the colour red exists
and there will be any number of proposals – propositions –
to account for – to explain – the colour red
in the absence of any description – what exists is the unknown
our world is propositional
‘Here we mean the existence of a red sample as part of our language’ ?
yes – we can propose a ‘red
sample’ –
and if we do – the proposal – the proposition – is ‘part of our
language’
and then the question – what does the proposal – the proposition amount
to?
in response to this we can have any number of proposals
and any proposal – any proposition –
is open to question – open to doubt –
is uncertain
© greg t. charlton. 2014.