'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 22, 2014

Philosophical Grammar 99


99. What happens is that this symbol cannot be further interpreted, but: I do no interpreting.

I imagine N. No interpretation accompanies this image; what gives the image its interpretation is the path on which it lies.



‘but: I do no interpreting’?

yes – logically any proposition is open to interpretation –

however for a good many – perhaps even for the majority of the propositions that come our way – we do no interpreting

and the reason?

a question has not been put – a doubt has not been raised

‘I imagine N. No interpretation accompanies this image; what gives the image its interpretation is the path on which it lies’?

yes fair enough

just what that path is – will be open to question – open to doubt



© greg t. charlton. 2014.