It seems, to an extant thinking entity, that objective reality, within which only that which exists can dwell, requires a belief in a fabricated conce...
There's actuall a strange phenomenon here in this. Even though you are correct, technically speaking, the hinge proposition is actually accepted by th...
Yes, very great info coming from you. I actually downloaded a pdf of Anothny Kenny's book. I had completely misconstrued the concept. I normally stray...
I did, and I really prefer his language; I'm telling I can't stand the word salad shit. It's the quickest way for me to dismiss someone. But, no, it w...
I'll go grab a pdf. I appreciate it. I had written an essay on Wittgenstein the other day where I characterized his view on hinges entirely inaccurate...
Yeah, Banno provided an explanation that cleared up my confusion. Yes, that's coming to my attention as we speak. I doubt it, but I see what you mean....
That is, quite literally, 100% more clear of an explanation than anything I've been able to glean from Wittgenstein. You see, it's this linguist shit ...
Hinge propositions are predicated on facts accrued by humans through data gathering and analysis. The presupposition of belief is not necessarily a fa...
Yeah, I mean I might as well posit the idea of door frame propositions, because even hinge propositions have to have a stable set of facts to work wit...
No where in particular. I just like to remain aware of it when dealing with linguists. My argument is that hinge positions are certainly within the bo...
I'd say that such would be correct, if we were to accept Wittgenstein's assertion that hinges are not open to rational confirmation, or falsifiability...
" In order to make a mistake, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind." Here's the point I'm making with his next statement: the conformit...
That's because the human is the theoretical edifice maker, and data analysis sometimes indicates one's framework is faulty, misaligned, or sometimes e...
Of course not. However, I'm not sure why my commentary would lead you to ask such a question. You'll notice I have not claimed that hinge propositions...
I have, they're not good. Nor, are they useful. Cognitive neurscience is superior for drawing conclusions, without contest.This being mainly because i...
An argument ad populum is a fallacy. The Wittgensteinian approach being adopted by researchers in psychology is irrelevant, especially when you provid...
There's actually a good paper on it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330091267_Hinges_Disagreements_and_Arguments_Rationally_Believing_H...
So, a couple of things are the issue. The first being that the term "Capitalism" and "politico-economic structure" are mutually exclusive terms by mod...
This is all good stuff, yes, complexity (structurally) and networking (data accrual). Dan Dennett really covers this stuff thoroughly in a series of b...
Firstly, fellow traveller, let me start by saying: thank you for the entertainmaint. This was one of the more, perhaps the most even, unique responses...
No... No it is isn't. That's an assertion without evidence for itself. It would to fools. However, solipsists contradict their own perspective by havi...
For the most part, yes. However, the greatest of them wasn't. But, they are not common, women philosophers. And none exist right now in the public wor...
Of brains, as far as I know, yes. The result of 3.5 billion years of evolution selceting for the pinnacle predator, instead producing the source of mo...
"No Gods, No Kings, Only Man." - Andrew Ryan You're talking my utopia here, pal. I'd give anything for people to snap out it, love themselves, underst...
No, more the structure of how data is actually integrated and anaylized, prioritized and distributed, and how that informs both your desires, and your...
As was always the case, and why the brutes used mysticism and force to stifle human thought. They knew, being the only people enjoying sovereignty in ...
Argument from ignorance. Just as there are Platonists and Kantians, that doesn't mean it's any less foolish. No, they do not. Only men and women with ...
You're not defined by "just physical matter in their skull," the brain isn't just physical matter, it is a highly specific, highly structural, highly ...
Do me a favor and provide more context on which statements these quotes were pulled from, there's too much for me to sift throught to find them to giv...
Man is an end in himself. Consciousness is self-producing and self-informing. This is what Hume didn't understand in his "Problem of Induction," or so...
It's actually a funny thing in the history of philosophy. It is general accepted and not disputed that Socarates in fact did live, however it's kind o...
A person is most certainly a brain. You do realize that all functions you exhibit, including those which are subconscious, are produced by the brain? ...
Cognitive neuroscience accounts for consciousness as it currently stands. The brain produces consciouness. And again, the realm of could be's unknown ...
They don't have the choice. Reality is the one thing nobody can escape. The only miracle that never stops being. One will learn it here before they di...
Mm'no...... I think he's talking about all of the differences that we've known about for years and are, similarly, present in all animals. You know, s...
So, look. Fundamentally, Wittgenstein is observing something that is the result of emotionally valenced coherence of integrated concepts, built around...
Yes, it's why subjectivism and relativism are self-destructing concepts. Such a group of assertions have to be made from the perspective of reality, u...
Yes, puritanical adherence to integrated conceptual frameworks can only be overcome, internally, by integrating correspondence, skeptism, falsifiabili...
It's a bit different for Socrates. Mainly because he was the first ethicist in Western history, and philosophy was still such a young concept that hum...
Yes. For example, I am a philosopher by academic study, by pursuit of knowledge, and by product in writing. I focus in ethics, which is the branch tha...
I really enjoy the way you process these concepts. I haven't been impressed all that much here on the philosophy forum, you and Paine seem to be consi...
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