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I think Josh has been trying to talk about that. There are psychological models that develop some of those ideas about learning language. But the shar...

Is the writing, Must We Mean What We Say, where Cavell introduces the central role of the skeptic in his reading of Wittgenstein? Or is that asserted ...

I heard Penner to be saying that Kierkegaard was not imagining that his rivals were outside the Christian community. So, if he did understand that the...

I read that a long time ago. I remember an emphasis upon distinguishing creed, what a person believes, and generations of a community struggling with ...

As promised before, I will leave off from challenging the role you have assigned the skeptic. But I will point out that Wittgenstein is unambiguously ...

As the Professor says:

I guess I agree with Kant that the "skeptic" is not opinion but an energy that keeps us alive. Otherwise, thinking merely mirrors a reflecting of thin...

That difference is interesting to me as well. Will ponder. I think there are other ways to look at the table of possibilities being presented here. I ...

Your description does capture a number of ways the solipsist may be operating. The solipsist could be me, after all, and my M.O. could be one of those...

I read Wayfarer to be saying that emergence of new life came from someplace rather than nothing. That demands a different response than the constant r...

There are plenty of examples where Kierkegaard expresses dissatisfaction with fellow Christians. It is fair to say that his opposition to Hegel, for i...

That works for highway signs but does not explain why Wittgenstein calls it a mistake (without qualification) when reflecting upon learning language a...

By pointing out when W speaks of "us" versus "them" in the above quotes, I did not mean to say he is always doing that. On the contrary, he explicitly...

The bit I quoted leaves out where the solipsist just moments before was attempting to speak meaningfully of his condition. It is the conflict of motiv...

If it is true that the is that not another instance of "forms" activating "matter?" In that case, not an inversion of the Wayfarer thread.

The role of "use" is underlined in the previous paragraph beginning where W is playing a role with: "Then I can still express my solipsism by saying,"...

This is confusing. I understand why someone would not be satisfied by a correction of speech. In the context of this book, however, the problems of th...

I understand that you are concentrating on your writing now so I will wait as long as you like to respond or not, but I am compelled to say this now: ...

I am not sure that I agree but accept that such a judgement is critical to Wittgenstein's enterprise. "Occult" appears in the preceding paragraph: The...

Thank you for the link. I was not aware of it.

The passage starts on page 57 and goes to page 61. The beginning is really the preceding paragraph saying: "Love for the neighbor has the perfections ...

Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi.

My statement was a reaction to hearing that there were those for whom "there is little of value in the explicitly Christian character of Søren Kierkeg...

I think W is looking at Kant as the champion of idealism rather than Berkeley. The erosion of Kant's foundation is the work of the Blue Book from its ...

In considering the solipsist, I think it is important to keep the "realist" and "idealist" within shooting range. They each are found to "draw some mi...

I would give reading that a shot. I like that it involves a text without making it a part of other texts, even as it is written in the context of othe...

Are you asking me to not comment with references to earlier and later work by W until you finish going through the text? My focus has been on the disc...

Kierkegaard does see Christianity and Worldliness as essentially different. But he does recognize a "well intentioned worldliness. It is too much for ...

I was giving a reading of what the "ending of the world" might mean in Wittgenstein's argument. not arguing for it on my own behalf.

If one accepts that such a Christian character is the most important question throughout all of his work, Penner playing off one camp against another ...

I was surprised by the depiction of what is said to be "Socratic" in your account of the Penner article. I will try to read it and maybe respond. If I...

Your summary of Berkeley and his reception is helpful and germane. I would only add that the "world ending" in 6.431 is a recognition of the solitary ...

The Philosophical Fragments juxtaposes the Socratic idea of self-knowledge to learning the truth in some other way. That is an exact description of hi...

I would like to challenge that but am presently more interested in the Bongo response.

Perhaps an instance of Hegel noting where a change of quantity is a change of quality.

That reading of Wittgenstein assumes "meaning" is an arbitrary convention. That is precisely what he militates against in Philosophical Investigations...

My pup tent is located somewhere on your hill. Kafka must also be nearby:

I appreciate the explanation of sandbagging. The adaptive process seems parallel to marketing feedback to customer selections: An algorithm of mirrors...

It is very tricky. I am inclined to think that it is not overcome but I won't try to argue for that as a thesis but just give some impressions on a fi...

I would like to again underline a difference between psychiatry and psychology. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. Think of her as a gathering place ...

When W says that solipsism is not an opinion, the view is connected to the Tractatus saying it is present but cannot be said. There is something to be...

I have learned many things through it but have often come to question their summaries when reading actual texts. Probably the fate of all attempts at ...

There are many other practitioners who agree and the importance of theories of development is that such views held by many are meaningless theoretical...

Yes. Dyslexic spelling.

Each attendee to the welcome wagon certainly presents their own tray of muffins.

Szaz stood outside of the community of practitioners and called a pox upon all their houses. Liang was more of an 'ordinary language' protest to the a...

In so far as directly engaging with original texts goes, I found it helpful to record reactions, note parallels, and keep track of references as one p...

Yes. I was waving toward that in my comments above concerning the world of the "patient." I see some hope from the developmental conception side where...

The definition excludes a difference that does not replace why the difference has been used up to now. General terms lose their value when they apply ...

I should not have spoken so absolutely. I was focusing on the question "why not?" Your example of coding reminds me of how I learned methods of work i...