'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.




Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 132


132. Operating with written signs and operating with “imagination pictures”.

An attitude to a picture (to a thought) is what connects it with reality.



we operate with propositions

and they can  be described variously – i.e ‘written signs’ – ‘imagination pictures’ –

regardless of how they are cashed out –

a proposition is open to question – open to doubt – uncertain

any proposal – any proposition – creates a reality –

any ‘attitude’ to what is proposed – is itself a proposal –

the original proposition is open to interpretation –

an attitude is an interpretation –

and like the proposition – the attitude – the secondary proposition – if you like –

is open to question – open to doubt –

is uncertain



© greg t. charlton. 2015.