'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.




Saturday, January 17, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 126


126. The impression is one thing and the impression’s being determinate is another thing. The impression of familiarity is perhaps the characteristics of the determinacy that every strong impression has.



yes an impression – an effect – in the absence of description – is unknown

any ‘determination’ of an impression is descriptive

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

familiarity –

to be familiar – is to operate in a propositional context that one is used to –

familiarity is an affect of propositional use –

it is non-critical propositional behaviour

you are familiar with a situation to the extent that you don’t question – that you don’t doubt – that you don’t recognize or ordeal with its uncertainty

familiarity is prefaced on acceptance –

its basis is in pragmatism – not logic



© greg t. charlton. 2015.