Interesting piece, i thought you might be interested in a book I've just come across extolling the virtues of a good story, when it comes to their pre...
You actually said "No" in answer to the proposition that metaphysics is journeyed through by personal choice (as opposed to rational necessity). You t...
The arguments people use to justify their theories and the reason they chose them are not the same thing. If you're claiming that arguing based on the...
Really? Because.... It's a very convoluted interpretation that has this exchange saying what you claim. Not only do you specifically make the claim th...
I don't know what model of theory choice you might be referring to, but I can't think of a single exposition to which "everyone" refers. There are per...
This is an excellent study and shows exactly how far animal husbandry has to go if it is to have any sustainable future. That animal husbandry has lon...
We're going round in circles and I don't think my replies are helping at all. Let's see if I can clear up a couple of points where I think we might be...
You said - "How did you learn what the word, "dog" means, if not establishing a connection between the string of symbols, "dog" and the image of a dog...
But how do you realise it was 'wrong'. Different, yes, but 'wrong'? Great, let's have a look at one of those examples for a public rule then, that mig...
Because you cannot simultaneously hold a rule and faithfully try to interpret it yet make a mistake. We do not have two minds, one with the 'real' rul...
Ramsey is probably the closest thing to a favourite philosopher that I have. In the short years of his life he produced better answers to a huge numbe...
Absolutely. I too was in a weird mood, particularly misanthropic, too many encounters of clashing egos, rather than clashing ideas at the moment. Stil...
You keep saying that it's possible to know whether you have misinterpreted your private rule, or mis-remembered it or maybe correctly interpreted but ...
I was using the term abstract in its philosophical sense with regards to language. This is, afterall, a philosophy forum and this is a thread about la...
I'm going to take a tangent here as I think the answers to your questions have more to do with psychology than language use. The slightly misanthropic...
When abstract terms (words) need defining, then we can only use other abstract words (terms) to do that job. At no point can we simply indicate some e...
Acting out of habit without consulting the rule would not be a case of the kind of mistake Wittgenstein is talking about. He's talking about a case wh...
This is the point. We do not have two minds. We cannot simultaneously hold a view on what a rule is and faithfully, with good intent, make a mistake i...
Good principle, but if agreement is to mean anything at all (namely that the idea in my mind is close in form and effect to the one in yours), then I ...
But the meaning of those terms has keep philosophers in heated debate for thousands of years. What is of value, how can value be measured, is value ob...
Well that's relatively simple since the private language argument only really starts at 243, the section on rule-following being only one of the numer...
Basically, the problem is, to use your example; Define 'value', define 'ideas', define 'goal', define 'understanding', define 'better formulated', def...
Firstly, these passages are Wittgenstein laying out the paradox and its implications, not providing the solution to it. Only Saul Kripke has really co...
@"chatterbears" So, I've read through the "evidence" you keep quoting. I can't find a single source which supports any of the claims you're trying to ...
Really if all you've got to say is that your interpretation of Wittgenstein is right and mine is wrong without any attempt to substantiate that claim ...
So what conclusion do you think someone with false memory syndrome would come to about what rule motivates their actions? What about phantom limb synd...
You seem incapable of following a logical argument,so I will try to make it simple for you. I argued, from a position of epistemic uncertainty, that i...
For goodness sake this is not a science forum. We are not here to discuss the technicalities of scientific papers. Have a look at the title bar of the...
No, you didn't "explain" it, you asserted it using your private definitions; "In reality, to follow a rule is to hold a principle within one's own min...
There are still three ethical claims which remain un-addressed and until they are further discussion is pointless. 1. The claim that we must base our ...
Interesting example of what I'm talking about. But he obviously did. I don't think there can be any doubt that Wittgenstein was a very clever man. He ...
But it's easy to answer your question, I don't understand the difficulty. A machine does a job of work. If you're trying make a connection with utilit...
Really? Then I must apologise for hijacking such an entirely mundane discussion with a side-track into the authority by which we judge philosophical p...
I agree. I don't see how either of us could conceive of the concept of 'hinges' without being able to abstract them from their use. How have you concl...
Not at all. I'm arguing, as Salvatore does in response to Wright's 'hinges', that one cannot simultaneously allow the discourse to range over both the...
Pete Unger makes a similar point, although not with your terminology. Philosophical arguments are held to win if and only if no counter-example can be...
I fail to see how Platonic intelligibility has any bearing on the use of the term in your argument. What I referred to earlier was not the concept tha...
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In 1) "Should" implies a shouldn't, in 2) "measured" is literally the terminology of science (truth is that which can be measured), in ...
Yeah, you could call that the 'history' of the problem, I could argue that I would see that as the history of maths, not the history of that problem, ...
Absolutely, I think I understand what you're saying here, for maths. I'm afraid I'm still not quite seeing how it applies to philosophical problems. I...
Well, you'd be in good company, some of my favourite philosophers are also of this opinion, but not me. I have a lot of sympathy for such a position, ...
Absolutely, I agree, but that's rather the point I'm trying to make (I'm guessing you're either no Wittgenstein fan or you have a completely different...
Interesting thoughts. I'm a fairly committed realist (even, dare I say something of a materialist... I know, but we're fairly easily killed with silve...
It's great how you've laid out what you see as a 'problemscape' in maths, that has been helpful, but (and I feel bad I didn’t think to specify this at...
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