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Well, that is proof of my charge that there is nothing there to challenge you as a philosopher. Heads you win, tails you lose.

From what I understand, Wittgenstein did not want to participate in that conservation the same way others did. The diffuse quality you object to is di...

If nothing is at stake in considering differing points of view. If Wittgenstein is truly a valueless cipher, then he should be ignored. By you and me.

If both sides of the coin are different kinds of irrelevance, then the discussion is meaningless.

I did not say I had no idea what you are saying. You repeat the terms of your objections as if I was not following along with your comments. I hazard ...

Would you be willing to recognize that you are offering me a "tails you lose, heads I win" set of alternatives? What can either of us be talking about...

To which statement are you directing your question?

I would not call it 'gatekeeping' but you have often offered an undialectical version of the works. In many cases, you seem to ride two horses at the ...

Heidegger tells a long story about how the concerns of philosophy were corrupted by some elements of its practice. He wrote (and lectured) at length u...

Wittgenstein refers to many of his contemporaries in his writings. He does not mention studying others. I think the Count's point about the depth of '...

Antonia Soulez (sorry, I cannot find a public link to it) makes interesting observations that Wittgenstein's references to Plato, Kant, Russell, etcet...

That is painting with a broad brush. Are you assigning all who evince interest in the writings as gatekeepers? For my part, the work is an interesting...

The sense of what is "metaphysical" knowledge is not presented as the anti-thesis to "material" causes. The beginning of the discussion is how the inq...

An excellent clarification of the situation before and after. I would like to add some observations but will wait to see if the original poster of the...

The Southern states had a powerful stake and influence upon Federal policy. The compromises made in the Constitution continued right up to the outbrea...

It would be better seen as the third iteration of the English Civil War. The struggle between aristocratic and plebian democratic forms occurred in th...

The remarks in the essay and Nagel's remark in his essay are reasonable, as a description of a point of view. Those statements do not confront Wittgen...

Do you see the Wittgenstein approach as a challenge to a general study of religion?

It is always difficult to sort out ancestors but if the matter is to be seen through the establishment and reactions to religious thought, the results...

Got it, shop talk. I will leave the matter alone.

When you say: There is the assumption of inner and outer, things for ourselves versus things in themselves. That is not how logic works in the Tractat...

To be precise, I accepted the probability of the application doing better than I would have in that situation proposed by you. It was not my point. Yo...

That is a highly contested realm of interpretation. It sounds like you have found expressions you endorse. Since you are available for challenge for w...

Not an area of my expertise. I should have kept it to the limits of general comparison and left it at that.

There, again, you have been given an array of choices of some of what can be given to you as array of choices. Can we pluck Plato's discussion of trut...

I don't consider it authoritative. I view it as a summarizing algorithm to produce Cliff notes.

I don't want it to do a better job of grouping ideas so as to find the most general point of view. I question the value of the most general point of v...

My problem with those answers is that it treats all of those categories as accepted individual domains when so much of philosophy involves disputing t...

A nice counterpoint of reasoned argument combined with personal denigration. The apprentice learns from the master.

He denigrates that distinction in the Tractatus and in the Philosophical Investigations. It is one of the persisting themes preserved from the early w...

I agree with your view. I had a more scholarly beginning, but my actual work life has benefited from spending that time learning how to learn. That in...

That question takes different shapes. In the realm of strictly psychological models, theories of development range from the Vygotsky approach, where t...

I understand Le Rochefoucauld to be saying that a narrative and a motive for acting for oneself is shaped by education. So, there is a "paying of dues...

I think the expectations within a family play a big role in how education is experienced as the training outside of that realm. Having to give an adeq...

There is also the kind of self-destruction that is a withdrawal from discourse altogether. Erasing the traces of the crime, if you will. I have come i...

I agree that the 'machine learning' is not impressive as a tool of new interpretation and discovery. It always has the tone of a college paper cribbed...

Understood. I am interested in your actual response.

Who are these people who want me to think this way? Or is your comment a rhetorical device?

Some of the actual scholars of the texts do promote such views. Others do not. A concerted engagement with the texts is needed if one is to decide for...

I was not aware of such a movement. Does that category include those who have read a lot of Greek texts? Asking for a friend.

including yourself? Just curious.

Saying "possibly" adds a wrinkle to simply noting one is at a loss of words. Can one observe a limit only when considering how to supersede it?

If I can share a "subjective truth", what makes that possible? Where should one look for that possibility? Does not the question ask for a world where...

It does happen that way. But it also happens in the opposite direction. The power of universal literacy and an informed consensus is the engine of dem...

You have the attention span of your hero.

Do you always deflect from challenges by not answering questions?

I disguise it by bringing the topic up?

How does that observation relate to the money behind Trump?

A consistent feature of your program is that the clear connection between the very wealthy and the "effete political class" never appears in your anal...

I would go further and say that Wittgenstein is opposed to the framework of things in themselves versus things for us. Kant's depiction of intuitions,...