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The Moyal-Sharrock essay, Wittgenstein's Razor: The Cutting Edge of Enactivism (thanks Luke for the link) has a good quote about behaviorism: Chomsky ...

I get your careful "thinking we are in agreement." Thank you for the links. I am not accustomed to these debates between commentators. Are you joining...

The series discussing "grammatical" behaviorism does end with: The different formulations of privacy are found wanting but not toward the goal of canc...

I tried to track down some of the scholars mentioned by you and Sam. I was surprised to learn that there are different readings that one book called: ...

That is a good question to ask about the treatment of games in Philosophical Investigations Whether right or wrong, the following of rules is separate...

It is a pleasure to be understood.

The furniture has been removed. I feel a bit like Gregor.

It would be dishonorable if that was the case. It would require considerable skill to hide such a deception from the site administrators. It is diffic...

What are these narrowest and broadest readings?

The place will be less from your absence.

With that agreement, the next question should be about the separation between "logic" and "experience" as depicted in Philosophical Investigations.

From what I have gleaned from the text, the plural of propositions is the essential ingredient here. The analogy requires a collection of propositions...

402 says that you cannot have questions without the hypothetical: Having questions and doubts takes place in the context of acceptance: The acceptance...

I do not hear the sequence to be saying that the propositions in question only "look" empirical. The objection to Moore in 402 is directed toward usin...

To my mind, the critical issue is not how far to employ a particular figure of speech but how to express what is wrong with Moore's argument. Wittgens...

I was thinking along Michael's lines. I was wondering if keeping the same email was enough assurance against pilfering.

Does it matter if I use current password or not? EDIT: I did and it worked.

I just finished re-reading the book and found out how much is based upon the "reasonable" person. This person inherits a system of facts: Much of the ...

These remarks in On Certainty seem to follow the distinctions made in Philosophical Investigations between natural science and the comparison of langu...

Regardless of interpretations made of the contents of the work, I have long been puzzled why On Certainty has been received as worth serious considera...

Noted. My system rejects Billy Joel without exceptions.

As a matter of common law or spousal antipathy?

An exquisitely American Pastime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZ7BlqSPUg

The Blue Book recognizes the validity of the scientific method while distinguishing its work from Wittgenstein's investigation: This decoupling of wha...

What I took away from the Blue Book is that the problem of natural science is that it engages with the hidden where Wittgenstein claims the considerat...

Thinking in terms of existentialism does evoke the personal "my world" spoken of in the Tractatus. The work in the Philosophical Investigations reflec...

That underscores for me the stated goal of Wittgenstein to distance himself from the generality of the Tractatus.

From the quote from the Blue Book I gave above, the difference between science and the investigation Wittgenstein is doing involves the use of models....

Maybe now is a good time too look at how Wittgenstein separates his enterprise from Psychology in the Blue Book:

My reply was a strict focus on the AI report you supplied. Of course, there are and have been many other forms of slavery. You mentioned the Greeks be...

Slavery is complex. Your quote from AI is profoundly misleading. To understand the condition of slaves from Africa, I suggest reading The Chattel Prin...

The bunker view is that none of the reactions to the Administration are about what they do or do not do. There is no loop.

Welcome back to the Forum. Your comment puts the one I just made in Sam's thread in a larger context. I will try to come back to your points after pul...

Wittgenstein is asking how all this "thinking" got started: Philosophical Investigations explores what "talking to oneself" involves (and not) during ...

Comparisons between feudal serfdom and other forms of slavery are interesting but require a search for historical contexts that is not evenly reported...

It is, at least, verification that Trump is racist. Trump has survived so many revelations of his character that he figures himself to be invulnerable...

I don't know what the real story is but am curious why it is patently implausible from what you have learned.

As a problem for philosophy, the role of "identity" is the loose ball in the Rugby scrum of the dialectic. I don't think there is a "self" that can be...

I had no inkling of those reciprocal voting treaties! I want it here.

That, for me, is the critical issue. If one does not accept the Cartesian view of creation constantly being refreshed by God, thinking must find itsel...

The use of "ego" seems to always require an arrangement of associations that set the scene for its appearance. Narcissus falls in love with his reflec...

Agreed. The Bannonite effort was aspirational rather than effective. We can freak when Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen gets a helicopter ride ...

I was referring to an argument made in a particular book. Phillips would be the last to dismiss slavery as not being critical to the moment he reports...

It is a difficult balance. To accept intolerance as what is tolerated is the hairshirt of freedom.

In terms of where people came from within Britan, Albion's Seed by David Fischer gives a brilliant report on differences in how they lived and why the...

Your point is amplified when considering the efforts at the inception of the U.S. alt-right movement to align with nationalistic parties in Europe. Th...

I suppose the most common ground for those desiring separation is a version of Hank William's "If you mind your own business then you won't be minding...

Perhaps the version by Hillel is more universal: "Do not do to others what you would not have done to yourself." I suppose it does not rule out forms ...

When one searches Google Scholar for "denominations that split during the civil war", the results show how divisive the presence of slavery had become...

Yours is a helpful consideration. The abolitionists of ante bellum U.S. were an important force against slavery, even though most other opponents to t...