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.