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Ludwig V

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A lot depends here on what you call proof and when proof is the appropriate way to go and when alternatives need to be found. I'm not sure I'm happy w...
November 20, 2025 at 23:13
You are right. That remark is more complicated than it seems. It is true that to seek to disprove everybody else's solipsism is something that only a ...
November 20, 2025 at 13:34
I didn't think I was, although we may have different definitions. For me, objectivity is true or false. Subjectivity is neither. I didn't mean to say ...
November 20, 2025 at 13:07
For most people, I think, if something can be true or can be false, it is objective. There's no truth or falsity to something subjective. Do you mean ...
November 20, 2025 at 07:00
It is true that our perception and sensation can sometimes mislead us. But "sometimes" means that sometimes they do not mislead us. That looks like ob...
November 19, 2025 at 18:13
Well, yes. But can an anti-realist know that there is more than one anti-realist? I think not, and that's why I think that the only consistent form of...
November 19, 2025 at 11:34
Yes. "Sentence" and "statement" are just about acceptable. "Thought" and "judgement" are also very dubious. That wasn't my summary of the argument. I ...
November 17, 2025 at 11:38
In a way, I'm fine with the first sentence. My problem is that we seem to hunger for a way of metaphorically pulling everything together under one hea...
November 16, 2025 at 10:48
Quite so. That gives us some ground to treat the speculative physics that we hear so much about as somewhat different from this game. The speculations...
November 15, 2025 at 23:01
Yes. You are right. My main point, though, was the structure of type and token that enables to say that it is the same symbol in many places and many ...
November 15, 2025 at 21:34
Just a small point. What I "actually" point to is a mark on wall or paper. That mark is a token of the type "7". It is a sign or symbol for the number...
November 15, 2025 at 19:12
Perhaps you are right. Quantum physics always seem to shroud everything in a fog, anyway. I may well have misunderstood you. I find myself floundering...
November 15, 2025 at 10:46
Yes. But the challenge is to explain exactly what the word "reality" is guilty of - or, better, what we are guilty of when we misuse the word "reality...
November 14, 2025 at 23:50
OK. I canunderstand wanting something to keep and refer to. There was much more meat than I expected. I'm thinking that many people would get more out...
November 12, 2025 at 19:31
Thank you. I'm afraid I'll need to be brief. Yes. It was a lazy choice. I had in mind a certain uncertainty I have about the borderline between logic ...
November 12, 2025 at 10:09
Yes. It's almost as if objective and subjective have become nouns. I always thought that the ellipsis in "objective" and "subjective" was "proposition...
November 10, 2025 at 13:49
All of that is what we start with - the inheritance we are lumbered with. We do well to examine it closely. There are good things in it, however. The ...
November 07, 2025 at 23:15
You mean that Descartes was looking for, and thought he had found something permanent on which he could build a whole system of knowledge - permanent ...
November 06, 2025 at 06:58
You remind me of Descartes and his project of universal doubt. But I think taking on everything at the same time, is unlikely to be fruitful. It would...
November 05, 2025 at 07:03
I've been wondering whether to go on and read the Brown Book. This is astonishing, because he is putting in to question what elsewhere - especially in...
November 05, 2025 at 06:36
I'm sorry I didn't notice. But disappointed that you think it doesn't matter. It depends what your project is, so I won't argue with you. In a sense t...
November 04, 2025 at 19:04
I struggle to articulate the difference. It is tempting to say that they express different propositional attitudes. But I don't like propositional att...
November 04, 2025 at 15:27
Normally, they wouldn't. That's why it seems to odd that you want to ignore "know". I know you explained that, but it seems to me a pragmatic reason, ...
November 04, 2025 at 09:39
It is complicated. I was hinting at the criticism of Ryle, not on philosophical grounds, but on political (small "p") grounds. He acquired a great dea...
November 04, 2025 at 07:37
Well, one of the less happy consequences of high-lighting issues of language in philosophy is that it can all too easily seem as if that's all that ph...
November 04, 2025 at 07:12
That's right, if you are only thinking about the first person use - "I know that...", "I believe that...", "I think that...". Things are different if ...
November 03, 2025 at 13:39
Is there are reason why we haven't mentioned Ryle?
November 02, 2025 at 18:40
I think we should look to the question to see whether the empirical projects are framed by the same question(s) as Wittgenstein's. I would go a step f...
November 02, 2025 at 11:24
I don't really understand what work "epistemically" is doing here. However it is true that "I think that p" and "I believe that p" both indicate that ...
November 01, 2025 at 23:40
No, I wasn't going there. There's nothing wrong with having different approaches around the same subject/object. I would need to do quite a lot more w...
November 01, 2025 at 23:05
Perhaps not. Sadly Chomsky was just three years too late. He didn't develop the theory of transformational grammar until 1955. The argument that there...
November 01, 2025 at 19:55
I found myself unable to reply to coherently to this. I suspect it needs a book. I don't know the best way to evaluate his work. I think he will have ...
November 01, 2025 at 08:12
On thinking about this, I've come to the conclusion that perhaps all we need to say is that the study of the logic of our language and the study of ho...
November 01, 2025 at 07:58
Oops! Sorry!
November 01, 2025 at 07:09
I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. Is this the question? That's my answer. I'm aware of the principle and who first propounded it. It would be very help...
October 30, 2025 at 21:29
The former are what you call rules of man and the latter are laws of nature. I suspect that everything else in your definition follows from that disti...
October 30, 2025 at 18:42
I see that you have changed your text. So I guess there was a typo. Don't worry. Everybody does that from time to time. I'm sorry, I don't understand ...
October 30, 2025 at 15:16
I'm not interested in refuting your definitions. I'm trying to understand them. Then I'll be able to to evaluate them. But I doubt my verdict would be...
October 30, 2025 at 09:51
I see three different uses of language games here. One is their use as an analytical tool; the paradigm example is the builders at the beginning of PI...
October 30, 2025 at 07:25
Yes. I don't have a complete answer. The UK and USA have laws prohibiting euthanasia. Those laws apply to those who think it moral and those who think...
October 29, 2025 at 23:25
I think that Wittgenstein later discussion of "seeing an aspect" (interpretation) as in a puzzle picture. The solipsist is not wrong, exactly, but is ...
October 29, 2025 at 20:39
Just to be clear. I'm not disagreeing with what you say about this. I'm observing that "what we would say.." needs explaining - and, to be honest - I'...
October 29, 2025 at 20:24
Yes. The clearest case is whether there is a debate about whether a moral "law" should be made a law. There's also some dubious ground in the idea tha...
October 29, 2025 at 18:56
Yes. But I think you have some issues to sort out. 1) The relationship between the ideas that human beings have about how nature works and how nature ...
October 29, 2025 at 18:50
That works perfectly well if you are thinking of human laws. The "rules of man" has somewhat wider scope, which complicates the issue. Non-legal rules...
October 29, 2025 at 12:25
Yes. But the way we frame the method, it looks very like an empirical/sociological argument. "We say.." "We wouldn't say..." Gellner got very hung up ...
October 28, 2025 at 22:03
Yes, that's true. Perhaps I'm overdoing it, but I find myself thinking that examples are not fully described and so the proposed response is not entir...
October 28, 2025 at 13:13
Thanks for the replies. I can't respond until tomorrow, I'm afraid. I would like to wait (procrastinate) thinking about an overall analysis to see wha...
October 26, 2025 at 20:13
Section 19 pp. 65 - 69 More about solipsism, meaning as use, and pain After the tricky discussion of "it is always I who see when anything is seen", (...
October 26, 2025 at 20:06
There are two mistakes here. One is thinking that because those signs fit the model of "signifier" and "signified", the same model has to fit all sign...
October 26, 2025 at 10:36