'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.




Thursday, January 01, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 110


110. However many steps I insert between the thought and its application, each intermediate step always follows the previous one without any intermediate link, and so too the application follows the last intermediate step. – We can’t cross the bridge to the execution (of an order) until we are there.



if there is a connection between a proposition described as a thought – and a proposition described as its application

the connection is propositional –

that is you put forward a proposal relating the two descriptions –

you can’t cross the bridge until you propose the bridge –

and if you have a mind to you can ‘insert’ proposals between the two –

that is to say further describe or explain the relationship

and  yes you can describe the application proposal as following ‘the last intermediate’ step / proposal –

any number of ways of looking at a propositional relation are possible –

it’s just a question of what you are doing and why

however there is no necessity in any of this –

any description – and any proposal relating descriptions – is open to question – to doubt

we operate in propositional contingency –

the ground of all propositional action is uncertainty



© greg t. charlton. 2015.