[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:26:10 -0400
Robert Paul wrote:
"I don't find the sentence 'The police have no right to enter one's home
without a search warrant,' incomprehensible. An Aristotelian account of
why this makes sense (or not) would be welcome."
The simplest account is all that is needed.
"Two different symbols can therefore have the sign (the written sign or
the sound sign) in common - they then signify in different ways. ... In
the language of everyday life it very often happens that the same word
signifies in two different ways - and therefore belongs to two different
symbols - or that two words, which signify in different ways, are
apparently applied in the same way in the proposition. ... Thus there
easily arise the most fundamental confusions (of which the whole of
philosophy is full)." (Wittgenstein, TLP, 3.321, 3.323, 3.324)
There are the rights granted by a government and then there are
inalienable rights. The former is an unfortunate yet comprehensible
usage of the word while the latter is both unfortunate and
incomprehensible.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Toronto, ON
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