'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, December 24, 2018

Tractatus 1

1. The world is all that is the case.


what is the case is what is proposed

the world – is what is proposed

a proposal is open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain –

the world is open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain


1.1. The world is the totality of facts, not things.


facts are proposals – things are proposals – the world is proposal –

it makes no sense to speak of the totality of facts / proposals –

propositional action is on-going and indeterminate

proposals – propositions – are open to question – open to doubt – and are uncertain


1.11. The world is determined by the facts, and by there being all the facts.


‘the world’ – is  not determined – the world is open – open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain

‘facts’ – are proposals – open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain

as to their being ‘all the facts’ –

it makes no logical sense to speak of ‘all the facts’ –

propositional action – the putting of proposals – of facts – is on-going and indeterminate

what we deal with – is what is proposed – and what is proposed – at any time and place
           

1.12. For the totality of facts determines what is the case, and also what is not the
case.


there is no totality of facts – facts are proposals – and propositional action is on-going – and indeterminate

what is proposed – is not determined –

what is proposed – is open – open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain

what is the case – is what is proposed –

what is not the case – is what is not proposed –


1.13. The facts in logical space are the world.


facts are proposals – propositions –

what we deal with is propositions – and propositional constructs

the notion of ‘logical space’ – is irrelevant to propositional action

the world is propositional


1.2. The world divides into facts.


you can put the proposal that the world divides into facts / propositions

this is just another proposal – open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain


1.21. Each item can be the case or not the case while everything else remains the
same.


‘each item’ – is – each proposal –

a proposal put is the case

and what is proposed – is open to question – open to doubt – and uncertain

what is not the case – is that which is not proposed –

‘everything else remains the same’ –

‘everything else’ – is what is not proposed

                                                                                                                                    

© greg . t. charlton. 2018.