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I actually responded because your story resonates with me - so please don't misunderstand. I also have BPD and other comorbid issues that have in fact...
June 28, 2025 at 16:51
Regarding your original post: Why do you wish that you had made different choices? This seems to presuppose that if you had made different choices, th...
June 28, 2025 at 16:12
Interesting! Thanks for sharing the link, I'll definitely give this a look. Also, I PM you the link to my project. Any and all feedback is welcome. Th...
June 26, 2025 at 16:36
As I've mentioned, this is something that I also found to be the case using AI like gpt... however, this, I think, mistakes accidental aspects of AI f...
June 25, 2025 at 12:03
Exactly what I mean when I describe GPT as "Yes-many" - this was my problem, too, and why I tried to make something better. Something that doesn't aff...
June 25, 2025 at 02:24
I agree, and interestingly enough I also found myself ultimately using chatGPT exactly in a manner you described in your previous paragraph; more as a...
June 25, 2025 at 01:31
Firstly, It's nice to meet you. Secondly, I appreciate this sentiment, in particular. Thirdly, I read the entire post three times now, and while I fin...
October 21, 2024 at 22:16
Thank you. I actually did stumble across that topic while browsing...truthfully, I've found that larger topics are more difficult for me to follow. I ...
June 18, 2024 at 12:50
The real question, is why given the fact that you agree that by taking atomic propositions to represent the general logical form of proper proposition...
June 17, 2024 at 23:09
This is an assumption you're making, and one which I think isn't necessarily the case. Firstly, there seems to be a clear category difference between ...
June 17, 2024 at 23:04
And here's where I disagree. Witt says: "Every proposition has a content and a form. We get the picture of the pure form if we abstract from the meani...
June 14, 2024 at 23:26
In Some Remarks on Logical Form, Witt deals closely with the problems of color. In it, he says: "Every proposition has a content and a form. We get th...
June 13, 2024 at 23:26
Ha! Like my last thread, we've gotten into tangents concerning the main point, however, since I am the OP and I think its important to work out the ta...
June 12, 2024 at 23:19
A proposition is a statement capable of carrying a truth value. Examples like: "The car is red." "The apple is ripe and delicious." Elementary proposi...
June 11, 2024 at 23:30
I'll do my best to address some of the points you make... You say: As it turns out, what amounts to the second sentence of any philosophical work is r...
June 10, 2024 at 17:53
I agree with a lot of what you've said in your posts...specifically regarding the broader scope of the work,. However, I found myself disagreeing here...
June 07, 2024 at 00:02
1. Logical positivists were not proponents of "modeling". For a logical positivist, the meaning of a proposition is its method of verification. 2. Pos...
June 04, 2024 at 23:18
Could you be more clear? :sweat: I am only somewhat familiar with the mechanist theory as it pertains to folks like Descartes and the revival of early...
June 04, 2024 at 01:10
This was quite helpful :) Adding to what you said, though... The debate which took place during the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s wa...
June 04, 2024 at 01:04
I more or less agree with this; it's basically the direction my thoughts have been headed, lately. With that being said, the only this you say that I ...
June 02, 2024 at 18:03
While I take your point, I don't necessarily agree that this must be the case. With that being said...I tend to take Witt at his word when he says tha...
May 31, 2024 at 23:42
Yes, I believe this is the problem of theory ladeness, right? That is, that our theory in some sense precedes our experience of the phenomena as such....
May 29, 2024 at 23:38
Witt says: “My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as nonsense, when he has climbed out through th...
May 29, 2024 at 00:29
I actually, personally, agree with you in terms of overall thesis. I think Aristotle's application of reason was both insightful and also not entirely...
May 25, 2024 at 19:49
We have to be careful, though. The use of the word "decay" isn't being used in the traditional sense of say a uranium atom decaying and releasing an a...
May 25, 2024 at 18:00
In June of 1911 an institution was founded known as the Bridge. It was in part funded using the Nobel prize money of chemist and physicist Wilhelm Ost...
May 25, 2024 at 17:42
This is very interesting... I've heard a line of reasoning that reminds me of this....I think it might have been Searle? Well, regardless...they made ...
May 25, 2024 at 00:32
I've always found the parallels between Socrates' treatment of "the good" and Wittgenstein's fascinating; it's actually what got me interested in Witt...
May 24, 2024 at 00:15
Indeed they were, but that's not to say that there is nothing that can be learned from Aristotle. I don't think he's wrong here...universal knowledge,...
May 23, 2024 at 23:53
Yes, but immediately following that he says: "Such in kind and in number are the opinions which we hold with regard to Wisdom and the wise. Of the qua...
May 23, 2024 at 23:32
Your translation is slightly different than mine :razz: But, in the quote you reference, I take Aristotle to be saying: "We say wise people have quali...
May 23, 2024 at 00:05
Every objection is worthy, my friend :smile: So, from 4.001 we know that the entirety of language is simply every possible proposition. This makes sen...
May 22, 2024 at 23:57
What would a better word be?
May 22, 2024 at 00:24
Did you want a quote that said that word for word? He says all propositions are language and all true propositions are science, therefore language is ...
May 21, 2024 at 23:59
Hmmm...maybe you're right. I'll have to respond once I've spent a little more time re-reading a bit of the metaphysics. But then it what sense can we ...
May 21, 2024 at 23:52
Without having to dig out the quotes that explain that a proposition is a possible state of affairs, I hope this helps: "The totality of propositions ...
May 21, 2024 at 23:49
It was, and its precisely under this climate that Wittgenstein grew up. The second wave of positivism as characterized by Ernst Mach would eventually ...
May 21, 2024 at 23:44
Witt says: "The totality of true propositions is the total natural science (or the totality of the natural sciences)" (4.11) But, language can convey ...
May 21, 2024 at 23:11
Knowledge does begin with the senses, but it does not end there. As Aristotle says: "Such and so many are the notions, then, which we have about Wisdo...
May 20, 2024 at 23:28
Well, he begins by saying a few things: 1. Humans have an innate desire to know 2. This knowledge takes different forms 3. Regardless of the form, kno...
May 19, 2024 at 16:59
I have thoughts on Aristotle's metaphysics, but I don't believe that I fully understand the issue that you're trying to articulate in the OP. Would yo...
May 17, 2024 at 22:17
While, I agree with the second part...the first part I don't catch your meaning. I have cited several examples where it does seem as though Witt is ma...
May 17, 2024 at 22:11
I would say that, perhaps, he wants us to be silent about certain kinds of metaphysics. Like Hume before him which said to "cast into the fire" all me...
May 16, 2024 at 23:47
I can see you no longer want to focus on the quotes wherein Witt does not make a distinction between the world, and "my world". Where he literally say...
May 16, 2024 at 23:25
Okay, so a couple of things... Your example is not so much an example of a negative fact, as simply a tautology...which is Witt's point. But, a negati...
May 15, 2024 at 22:47
I’ll try again...Witt says, “The totality of existent atomic facts is the world” (2.04). in 2.06, he then goes on to say: “The existence and non-exist...
May 14, 2024 at 20:23
Compare this to: "The existence and non-existence of states of affairs is reality (2.06). Even in the Pears version, there is a distinction between 1....
May 13, 2024 at 19:45
Then what is the purpose of Witt saying: "The total reality is the world" (2.063). If there is no distinction being made, and he's using the expressio...
May 13, 2024 at 18:06
Correct lol That's why there is a distinction between "The world" and "reality". In reality, I make my pizza out of dough and cheese xD In logical spa...
May 13, 2024 at 14:53
Thank you for the comment. I'd appreciate some quotes from the Tractatus that shows that this is, in fact, the case. I know that Witt mentions "ideali...
May 13, 2024 at 14:41