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Ludwig V

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That's true. Though we can cling on to ideas because we want them to be true and/or can't bear the truth. Well, yes. To know the illusion for what it ...
October 25, 2025 at 17:44
I think you are missing Wittgenstein's point. Of course signs co-exist with their objects. The image of the man with a shovel is ahead of the roadwork...
October 25, 2025 at 17:23
Yes. It was/is a common complaint by analytic philosophers against their opponents. They were often identifying a problem with some philosophical idea...
October 25, 2025 at 13:19
@"Joshs", @"Paine", I agree with you. But I have some ideas about how to approach this. The bad news is that I shall be busy today, so I won't be able...
October 24, 2025 at 05:59
Forgive me, I'm a bit confused. Is the mistake that you say is made in the following quotation. That is, do you agree with W that it is a mistake to l...
October 23, 2025 at 12:09
Yes, I think that's right. When it comes to notations, we're inclined to think that one notation should take care of every position/attitude or perspe...
October 23, 2025 at 09:36
@"Antony Nickles" I agree with that. They can all be seen as alternative views of the same issues - temptations. Given that we (sort of) understand th...
October 22, 2025 at 06:19
Yes. Curiously enough, the vision of a purely rational being is very attractive in some ways - we so often find the emotional, value-laden sides of li...
October 21, 2025 at 14:50
But doesn't he also claim that what the solipsist want to say, or mean, is incoherent or perhaps just a question of notation. You make me realize that...
October 21, 2025 at 09:43
I can think of cases where a notation might recommend itself - for the most part on pragmatic grounds. Whether they are relevant to philosophy is not ...
October 21, 2025 at 09:40
Well, he is quite right. There is a territory that, so far as I know, he does not explore. I point at a bus, and say (in grammatical mode) “That’s a b...
October 21, 2025 at 09:33
No. But here's the catch. Once you have pointed that out, somebody will set out to imitate the doing of those things. We may say that the AI is not "r...
October 21, 2025 at 08:25
It's a question of balance. I didn't think that my observation would be a distraction in the sense of getting in the way of the reading. Yes, that's a...
October 20, 2025 at 18:19
I don't really understand 6.431. I can see that death is the limit (end) of life and consequently not an even in life (he says that somewhere in the b...
October 20, 2025 at 13:10
Yes. But it seems to me that there are some things you just cannot delegate. You can't delegate your own exercise to a car etc. You can't delegate the...
October 20, 2025 at 12:47
That's complicated. This argument is not like others - the length of a rod, say. It's about the limits of language. We have to explore them in devious...
October 18, 2025 at 19:37
I don't disagree. Actually, I don't think it is possible to prevent it being used. There's a lot of hype and over-enthusiasm around at the moment. I'm...
October 18, 2025 at 18:57
Not sure I understand the last sentence. There is a very tricky problem, though, in working out how one can state a philosophical thesis without relap...
October 18, 2025 at 13:13
Literally parroting is often a waste of time. But formulating existing ideas for oneself, discussing and debating them, playing with them are all part...
October 18, 2025 at 11:40
Selfish people no doubt experience the same reward when they perform acts of greed and meanness and bullying. The difference is not in the hormonal re...
October 16, 2025 at 10:20
Yes, of course there must be a connection. That's very tricky. One might have expected W to announce that he had changed his mind, or not, and here's ...
October 16, 2025 at 06:49
I think that the reference to the "source of the puzzle" here is a bit misleading. Because it suggests that the source is something different from the...
October 15, 2025 at 11:27
I remember Cliff Notes and the endless battle with plagiarism. It's not that AI actually invents anything; it's just that it makes things easier - for...
October 14, 2025 at 07:15
I don't know what peewee ting is. But I take your point. I put my point badly about the checking. I agree with you that fact-checking ought to be donk...
October 13, 2025 at 21:05
It amazes me that people seem to be so unworried about the thorough poisoning of the well. Though given the extent that the well of the entire interne...
October 13, 2025 at 18:10
That's bad enough. But I am told - or hear rumours - that AI actually gets things wrong. Of course, that makes it no worse than people. The problem is...
October 12, 2025 at 13:56
Well, I'll just leave you to it. There's not much fun to be had here.
October 11, 2025 at 21:04
You miss the point where the distinction arises. If your vision is of peace and justice for everyone, it is altruistic. If your vision is of your own ...
October 11, 2025 at 20:59
Thanks for that. There's a case for considering generosity to one's children is a kind of selfishness. But that just reveals that what counts as selfi...
October 11, 2025 at 20:51
Well, we can all agree that every action has a motivation of some kind and that motivation "moves" the agent. To conclude from that that every action ...
October 11, 2025 at 18:30
Yes, the vocabulary must be really important. People usually identify schools by their shared doctrines, but actually, I think it is just as much abou...
October 10, 2025 at 08:26
The difference between empathy and sympathy comes up here. I've never been very clear about it. "Identifying with you" is a whole language game in it'...
October 09, 2025 at 10:29
It's based on my interpretation of references in Berkeley and Hume to "the academics" or "the schools" or "schoolmen". Aristotelianism as such is usua...
October 09, 2025 at 09:21
Of course it is. It's clearly a precursor. I'm not sure it's exactly our idea or Kant's idea. That quotation doesn't mention experience, which I think...
October 08, 2025 at 22:44
That is enough to tell me what I need to know. I don't read that as critical of Aristotle, so much as critical of "schoolteachers and orators". I was ...
October 08, 2025 at 14:16
Well, that just reinforces my opinion that there is no set way to distinguish between them. So your synonymy is not wrong. I'm usually very sceptical ...
October 07, 2025 at 18:28
It may be a loose way of speaking, but it make sense to me. Thanks. Very helpful.
October 07, 2025 at 12:55
I hope you don't mind looping back to this. No doubt you will ignore me if you do. It is clearly true that "warranted" and "justified" are closely rel...
October 07, 2025 at 10:59
I'm sorry I've taken so long to reply. Off-line life, which we choose to call real, intervened. I need to take more time to work through what you have...
October 07, 2025 at 09:27
That's right. Doesn't that mean that you have to recognize the plausibility of the "conspirator's" narrative? Which is a long way from attempting to "...
October 05, 2025 at 20:49
Here's a question I would like to put to you. I found the following in SEP - Kant That makes a lot of sense to me, and would resolve many of the objec...
October 05, 2025 at 07:26
I'm fairly typical of people educated in the 20th century English-speaking philosophical tradition. But with an emphasis on ordinary language philosop...
October 04, 2025 at 21:43
Space and time are big issues in philosophy, and I'm not an expert. But I do agree that we do not experience space as a phenomenon. I wouldn't say tha...
October 04, 2025 at 18:13
All right. That's very clear. So where does probabilistic reasoning fit? An example of a conclusion that can approach certainty in degree, but never b...
October 04, 2025 at 13:55
Yes, I understand that position. I won't pick it apart here. I wanted to point out that mathematical probability is mathematically certain. It has unc...
October 04, 2025 at 09:00
I meant that Hume does not question the idea of causation itself; he questions, and rejects, a particular account of what (efficient) causes are. I wa...
October 03, 2025 at 22:23
That's right. For Hume (by implication), association of ideas and impressions is the one piece of equipment built in to your minds. (Contrast Kant). T...
October 03, 2025 at 22:18
That's true and you have a point. But it is an argument from silence and as such falls short of being conclusive. There's a complication, though, that...
October 03, 2025 at 20:56
Yes, I knew that he explicitly criticised Berkeley somewhere. Thanks for the reference. I'm not sure, but I think the correct answer starts from the f...
October 03, 2025 at 12:46
I did exactly the opposite: I misunderstood you. I'm sorry.
October 03, 2025 at 08:17