Here's the problem: Before one can talk about action, the actor must already exist. Descartes has it backwards. To think (act) is to presuppose a thin...
Meaning is use Ludwig Wittegenstein: Sign-Referent concept of meaning is bollocks. --- When we say a sign's (a word's) meaning is its referent we are ...
We too are slightly buggish in our own way. Aren't we the offspring of Adam and Eve who were banished from the garden of Eden because they did what th...
This doesn't help in any way because a communal, social meaning can't be had unless each inidvidual makes his own private/personal meaning public/soci...
It appears that this is a language issue. This thing that we're engaged in, doing, as we have this conversation has been labelled an action, an act vi...
:ok: There is this general sentiment, as evidenced by the way debates are conducted (the first order of business being define one's terms), that peopl...
Questions 1. How much of philosophy depends on the existence of private languages? From the way philosophy is conducted, the first port of call being ...
Then why are we arguing? :chin: This is a classic case of obscurum per obscuris or even more accurately what we have here is full-blown case of Ignotu...
Update Beetle In The Box There's the word "beetle". I use it to refer to x in a box I have. You use it to refer to y in your own box. I can't look ins...
:lol: Trust me to do that! What exactly is a language game? It can't be context because that was old news and people seem to regard Wittgenstein's the...
Update To comment on my own previous post 1. Context vs Language game & Form of life. A language game differs from context in the following sense: Tak...
Update 1. Context vs Language game & Form of life. That the meaning of words depend on context was well established way before Wittgenstein formulated...
Update Wittgenstein claims that how we use the finger, what we point to with it, decides what the finger is, its meaning as it were. True that but...i...
It's all got to do with how we define the word "definition". My guesstimate is that if our aim is to understand reality, the definition of "definition...
Intriguing to say the least. An attitude reminscent of Bolyai and Lobachevsky, the two of whom discovered/invented non-Euclidean geometry. However, ph...
I agree that consciousness, I really hope we're tuned into the same channel here, plays a significant role in duality; after all it's a point of view,...
An old thread I know but seems something worth exploring even if only for fun and nothing else. The so-called fine-structure constant is the only scie...
That's why, it seems, I instinctively used H_2O, the chemical formula for water, in my post. It seems so natural to do so, as if that, the chemical co...
In what ways other than reference is language meaningful? Even if there's an answer to that question, of what relevance do they have to philosophy? Yu...
Sometimes the design doesn't necessarily require a conscious, deliberate effort. Your signalling theory is about how language can evolve to maximize/o...
@"Banno" I hope I did choose the words for my post with great care. From a Wittgensteinian perspective I'm obligated to ensure that my choice of words...
Definition of "Unspeakable" 1. not able to be expressed in words. "I felt an unspeakable tenderness towards her" Similar: indescribable; beyond words;...
Think of the mind as a vessel, its contents are thoughts. The vessel (the mind) contains thoughts, through these thoughts, via metacognition, the mind...
1. Do our choices make sense? In other words, are there reasons behind our decisions? 2. How do we know our choices make sense? In the thick of it, on...
The question of all questions is, why was gnosticism branded as heresy? What's so, oxymoron notwithstanding, satanic about a direct, one-on-one, encou...
Me (to a stranger): Sir, can you give me the directions to the nearest hotel? Stranger (to me): Yeah, sure. Take this road and turn left at the second...
Gnostic: I know something but I can't put it into words for you. Lay person: Say you don't know something. Can you put it into words? Gnostic: No, of ...
How do you know that? What's nonmathematical about man? But there were times, I believe, when many mathematical topics today were once never thought t...
Death, defined as the end of consciousness can't be distinguished from consciousness that isn't conscious of anything. As far as I'm concerned, a pers...
Update I've always been a bit, a whole lot actually, bothered by what is correct usage of words. This is basically the idea that a word has a fixed re...
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