TheMadFool

Update Possibilities: 1. Perhaps that words lack an essence reflects the fact that reality lacks an essence. 2. Our definition of meaning as an AND fu...

:up: Wittgenstein, was he a charlatan? A pseudo-philosopher?

This is problematic. The significance of context was known way before Wittgenstein was even born. His theory of language games must be about something...

What might that be?

Why can't it be the other way round? The physical seems to be obeying mathematical forms.

Why? Are you trying to say that, for instance, Brad Pitt, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, (basically men) are not men? I see, a Platonic point of vi...

Why would physical structures not possess mathematical structures. When I look at an ordinary die, I see a cube and when I look at the sun/moon, I see...

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Update The so-called linguistic turn in philosophy, allegedly initiated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, is said to have reduced philosophy to language. In oth...

Same here! Most of my ideas/thoughts seem to belong to someone else if being the original thinker amounts to owning an idea. If you have any issues, g...

Suit yourself.

You're contradicting yourself but I get the point. Thanks for the heads up. :up:

It's the same thing in my book. That's precisely/exactly what I meant too. Ignoratio elenchi. Wittgenstein, and I too, am talking about words and not ...

The aim of philosophy is to get to the truth. Language is both friend and foe in this enterprise. By helping us form mental pictures (maps) it allows ...

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Invented and derived. :chin: Perhaps we forgot what we had invented. This happens for real I believe. Andrew Wiles (mathematician who proved Fermat's ...

The notion itself lacks exactitude. You can't fix a blurry image by getting corrective glasses. IF you're right, all hope is lost.

Does hypercapnia (carbon dioxide poisoning) explain the chaos apparent in the world today? Are climate deniers and all others who are in a state of co...

I dunno! I guess we need to realize that there are certain truths involved e.g. what we value are assertions (e.g. happiness is good) in morality. Fro...

I don't know what I should've done. I'm just groping in the dark as far as I can tell. Wittgenstein seems to be making a point on language - that word...

Do I have a choice? :ok: And...?

I don't think so. I'm attempting to go beyond the words, to the things themselves the word stands for.

Words are signs, they stand for things. What they stand for is up to us, whatever we fancy that is. That's Wittgenstein. The essence of a thing is not...

An essence to my understanding is anything that sums up the true nature of a thing whatever that thing is. For example, let's stick to water, the esse...

Here's a way out of the climate change - fossil fuel predicament: Invent/develop CO_2 capturing chemical-based devices, attach them to the exhaust pip...

Without souls, most religions would collapse, being as they are wholly dependent on a promise of an afterlife to make sense of their theories which, u...

I would like to say that the statement "it's just for humans to survive" is truth-apt, it feels like that's the right thing to do but the question is,...

There are two important aspects to certainty: 1. The belief generating engine - logic 2. The input to that belief generating machine - propositions I ...

I was just wondering how the body structure of predators seem more complex, very designed (retractable claws, pincers, stereoscopic vision, fangs, agi...

Epistemic Responsibility. Logic Is Evil. Change My Mind

That's what worries me. We need to tread carefully because logic and morality are different subjects, neither is obligated to the other. What's the re...

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:up: Yes and No. The link you provided to a science forum does lead me to the exact same question I asked but it still seems deeply immersed in mathem...

Indeed there's a consciousness that must exist to appreciate a duality, any duality but duality exists independently of a consciousness. What I mean i...

Even if we take Schrödinger's equation as just that and not a law which I think it is, we should be able to come up with a one line description of it....

:blush: I haven't made up my mind...yet. Thank you for noticing. We usually lack insight into our own condition. Good day Khaled.

Read my post just above yours. Edited.

Yes, we shouldn't, it's better that we stand back from examining our beliefs critically. See my reply to 180 Proof and epistemic responsibility which ...

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Back when we were a young species: Work, if it did have any meaning, meant foraging, hunting and farming and the point of it all was simple - calories...

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So, it's yes and no kinda deal. Yes, Hitler is Nazism but not quite. :chin: Let's take another, more benign, example, the Pope. The Pope draws his ide...

What is it about light that gives it an edge over other media (for information)? Didn't the written word follow, temporally, the spoken word? Mayhaps ...

Brain-teaser. 1. Hitler's identity was/is defined by his beliefs (Nazism) 2. I can change my beliefs and yet I don't change (my beliefs are not me). E...

Why are the two of you fighting over nothing? :lol:

Methinks Reid's observation delves into what things really are. Reid seems to have made an assumption - sight reveals the true nature of things, reali...

The quintessential prey - plants - seem to have given up running from their persecutors (herbivores). I suppose the moment they lost their ability to ...