'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, January 12, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 119


119. This shape I see is not simply a shape, but it is one of the shapes I know. – But it is not as if I were comparing the object with a picture set beside it, but as if the object coincided with the picture. I see only one thing not two.



our descriptions are complex –

the description ‘object’ – may involve a number of other descriptions –

as too any description of ‘shape’

yes – there is focus of ‘one thing not two’ –

but that ‘one thing’ in the absence of description – is unknown

description creates the object – and its characteristics

any description is open to question – to doubt – is uncertain

we create with and in uncertainty –

the propositional reality is ‘a moving feast’

what is stable is the unknown



© greg t. charlton. 2015.