...says the world-renowned, multiple award winning, well-published author and the only living fully certified authority on Wittgenstein and almost eve...
:ok: I agree. This is a vital piece of information for me. There is no necessary connection between a word and its meaning by which I mean a word coul...
Everything in my humble opinion for Wittgenstein is claiming that there is no such thing as an incorrect meaning - every use of the word is perfectly ...
If I were to say "dog" means a block of ice with a straw wouldn't that be false? Isn't this the incorrect meaning of "dog"? If I were to say "dog" mea...
You maybe right you know. I did admit that I could be mistaken. Let's assume that I'm wrong and that wasn't a core assumption in Wittgenstein's theory...
I gave it my best shot. Below is another attempt at proving that Wittgenstein's core assumption - that all uses of a word are correct - is false. Supp...
If you think about it, comparing memes to genes amounts to breathing life into the former - it creates an image of memes as living entities with the p...
Maybe I do and maybe I don't know what "essential" means for I could be misusing philosophical terminology but that's the point isn't it? Not that the...
I heard Daniel Dennett speak on this definition of free will. He said something to the effect that this definition is suspect because it's premised on...
If anyone has done a philosophical or logical no-no, then it's those people who've used the word "game" improperly - employing only part of, and not t...
But games do have essential, defining, features; we're simply failing to notice them and that not least because we're just too lazy to put in the requ...
That you recognized that misusing words is a possibility says enough. To tell you the truth, I don't know what the essential features of games are but...
This query, although well formulated and dives right into the crux of the issue, can't be answered in a satisfactory manner. Why? Imagine I answer you...
Yes, the issue you raise by saying "but that seems abstract" is one I encountered in my analysis of Wittgenstein's language game theory. I run the ris...
I explained in my OP that the definition of the word "game", and any other word that behaves like it, consists of all shared features that are respons...
Which is another way of saying meaning (of words) is not in reference but elsewhere and that elsewhere for Wittgenstein is use but, my suspicion is th...
Wittgenstein is here among us! In this forum and many other like this one, for sure but...not because meaning is use but because so many words are bei...
Did you read the later paragraphs? I'm not saying you didn't but I went into, what seemed to me as, quite some detail how those features that determin...
A valuative question in my view. Can anything trump Hedonism? Most people are probably here because it makes them happy in some way or another and thi...
Fascinating! If it wasn't logically impossible for you to "assume, each person has their own world, with their own flags that point to them" why, all ...
What is information? The meat and potatoes of information comes in the form of answers to the 6W's and 1H: 1. What? 2. Where? 3. When? 4. Which? 5. Wh...
@"bongo fury" I would like to thank the trio for their replies. My use of H2O as the meaning of "water" was to convey the fact that "water" does have ...
:ok: Just want to run this by you... To begin with, I concede to the claim that referential meaning forms only a part of word usage. Take Wittgenstein...
I wonder if you'd like to know that you're looking at it upside down - nothing new to it but sure did make me scratch my head trying to get a handle o...
In my humble opinion sacredness is, for certain, a characteristic of religion but the meaning of religion seems not to be sacredness itself but about ...
What I want know is what Wittgenstein meant by "meaning is use"? If we were to accept Wittgenstein's position, meaning of words would be of two kinds:...
I couldn't really wrap my head around Wittgenstein's philosophy of language games. The best I could do was interpret it as having to do with ambiguity...
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