Yes, I suppose to. But my first instinct is to ask myself why it is so important? What are the consequences of one view or the other? On one side, we ...
OK. I understand roughly how those terms work in ordinary contexts. One complication is that identifying what is fundamental or basic (the two are not...
Futhermore, for the record, I think that Vogel's paradox of knowledge is a much more interesting problem, even though it has not attracted anything li...
I've only just discovered this thread, and I don't suppose for a moment that you'll want to revive it. On the other hand, I can't resist making some c...
It's true that he doesn't accept the natural and conventional idea of what solving a philosophical problem is. That's the point of his practice of dis...
Well, that's clearly a hopeless project. Like putting a blindfold on someone and then asking them to describe the landscape. It's the word "truly" tha...
Well, as you have just demonstrated, we can invent as many language games as we like, and then amalgamate them. So, for sure, they are innumerable bec...
On reflection, perhaps it will help others if I report what happened to me. And for the avoidance of doubt. NOT a complaint. I had to change my "handl...
Hi, Jamal, I just tried to login the new site. It didn't seem to like my password, so I clicked on "skip the password". The response promised a link "...
I have only two mild disagreements with this. I agree entirely with the proposition that we cannot see the world from outside any perspective. I would...
You put this is a question, I'm sure that any language game will rely on presuppositions at different levels, so there is unlikely to be just one thin...
I agree with you. That's what I was trying to say - with the conclusion, which seems obvious to me, that it follows that it doesn't have a clear meani...
I don't think this will stand up. (I'm assuming that "existence" means "everything that exists" and "reality" means "everything that is real". ) What ...
Would it not be fair to point out that Witt often makes the same or similar point(s) several times in different ways. The private language argument co...
But That resolves some cases. But not all - cf. the puzzle pictures. What is most important about them is that they high-light the role of gestalt - e...
Do you mean something like "to be is to be structured"? That suggests we could have a concept of an unintelligible world. I think we need to understan...
This is where the tedious point that we are inescapably part of the world plays a part. We participate in the general conditions of existence - specif...
The problem arises because we think of meaning as something shared between human beings and define "reality" as "neutral", i.e. meaningless. So we nee...
I don't think that "unintelligible structure" makes sense. So it would be better to say "co-create the structures we study". Then doesn't "study" sugg...
Perhaps "suspect" is the wrong word. If you mean that you are not bothered by the fact that we sometimes "see" (and "hear") things wrongly, neither am...
So what is going on when the waiter adds up the bill (whether by pushing buttons on a machinie or the old-fashioned way)? So is it false to say that u...
Any enforcement pressure comes from other people, and our reaction to what they say and do. I also apply pressure to other people. Like jostling in a ...
It's difficult to express the point clearly. "the inner cause of someone grimacing" could be taken to refer to the sensation of pain. But the private ...
Apologies for my long silence. I needed to reflect and find some clarity. All quotations are from the message in the "reply to" link. So we agree that...
Yes, no, and maybe. The difference between us seems to be that I am interested in how we use a word and am content if it is a part of our practice. Yo...
It can't be understood as the continuation of specific elements unchanged, if that's what you mean. I had in mind something more like an overlap, as b...
Yes. One can actually use the hammer in various ways that are not what it was designed for. I just wanted to point out that sometimes what something d...
That's fair enough. But I think that there is a little more to be said. Kuhn is not wrong to emphasize paradigm shift and incommensurability in an arg...
Perhaps I didn't explain properly. I don't have any difficulty with the idea of hinge propositions. I think it is very useful in understanding some de...
That's clear enough, I think. But I'm a bit bothered by the fact that we often don't bother to state criteria but use a term without such a framework....
Yes, people too often assume that language is about communication and has no other uses. That's not true. "Ouch!" isn't part of language, so it can't ...
That's true. I shows how language games are not in separate compartments, but interact. Indeed, I'm sometimes inclinced to think that Wittgenstein did...
I'm not clear what the difference is between a foundation and an ultimate foundation. But I don't see how inner feelings can be the only essential con...
The difficulty is that our inner feelings are not simply given, but are conditioned by our environment, including the language games we learn to parti...
I like the presentation very much. It is a useful summary and demystification of Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy. Some possibly helpful comments...
Since I think the argument is valid, in its way, I would say that I'm looking for the limitations and weaknesses of your argument. If I were inclined ...
Oh dear! But the fact remains that your argument depends on P4 - the apple does not exist during the second 10 seconds. So if we change or even just d...
Thank you for the clarification. Yes. It was always obvious that the 1 m/s was a stalking horse, because it was obvious that the actual time lapse doe...
OK. Now I ask you whether you think that we have indirect perception of the apple during the first 10 seconds. You misunderstand me. I'm proposing a v...
I suppose I have to call it an image. In one way, that's what we see if/when it gets into our eyes. In another way, of course, it is nothing of the so...
I still have a few questions, I'm afraid. 1. You seem to leave open the question whether the experience during the first ten seonds is an indirect per...
I'm not clear what "it" refers to in "it is not 'the object' in any sense". These examples scramble our intuitions - our common sense. The problem is ...
Why not? There is no relevant difference between the information carried by the light in the first ten seconds and the second ten seconds. The presenc...
Comments