'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.



Sunday, January 25, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 134


134. Doesn’t grammar put the primary colors together because there is a kind of similarity between them? Or colours, anyway, in contrast to shapes or notes.

The rules of grammar cannot be justified by shewing that their application makes a representation agree with reality.

The analogy between grammar and games.



grammar is a proposal – to account for – to explain – if you will – the logic of usage –

but as with any proposal – open to question – to interpretation

reality is what is proposed –

any proposal puts forward a reality –

justification is rhetoric

grammar is a proposal – a game is proposal



© greg t. charlton. 2015.
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