'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 26, 2015

Philosophical Grammar 137


137. Language is not defined for us as an arrangement fulfilling a definite purpose.



there is no definite purpose

language is not defined – it defines

and any definition is open to question –

open to doubt –

uncertain



© greg t. charlton. 2015.
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