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Nonsense, people choose the latter over and over again in their billions.
June 09, 2018 at 17:48
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...
June 09, 2018 at 16:15
You actually said "No" in answer to the proposition that metaphysics is journeyed through by personal choice (as opposed to rational necessity). You t...
June 09, 2018 at 15:53
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...
June 09, 2018 at 06:07
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...
June 09, 2018 at 05:55
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...
June 08, 2018 at 12:52
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...
June 02, 2018 at 07:39
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...
June 02, 2018 at 06:54
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...
June 01, 2018 at 16:36
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...
June 01, 2018 at 12:38
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...
June 01, 2018 at 07:00
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...
June 01, 2018 at 06:51
Absolutely. I too was in a weird mood, particularly misanthropic, too many encounters of clashing egos, rather than clashing ideas at the moment. Stil...
May 31, 2018 at 18:58
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 ...
May 31, 2018 at 15:38
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...
May 31, 2018 at 12:40
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...
May 31, 2018 at 07:07
My entire comment referred to abstract terms. "dog" is not an abstract term. Can you point to 'value' or 'meaning'?
May 30, 2018 at 18:33
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...
May 30, 2018 at 15:46
So what is so magical about the words we'd use to define these terms that they themselves do not need defining?
May 30, 2018 at 12:13
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...
May 30, 2018 at 12:10
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...
May 30, 2018 at 06:45
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 ...
May 30, 2018 at 06:23
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...
May 29, 2018 at 12:55
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...
May 29, 2018 at 12:42
Basically, the problem is, to use your example; Define 'value', define 'ideas', define 'goal', define 'understanding', define 'better formulated', def...
May 29, 2018 at 10:47
Firstly, these passages are Wittgenstein laying out the paradox and its implications, not providing the solution to it. Only Saul Kripke has really co...
May 29, 2018 at 07:08
@"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 ...
May 28, 2018 at 09:24
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 ...
May 28, 2018 at 07:08
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...
May 27, 2018 at 15:59
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...
May 27, 2018 at 07:47
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...
May 27, 2018 at 06:40
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...
May 27, 2018 at 06:23
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 ...
May 27, 2018 at 05:59
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 ...
May 26, 2018 at 13:12
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...
May 26, 2018 at 08:13
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...
May 26, 2018 at 06:23
I'm not sure I understand your point here.
May 25, 2018 at 16:10
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...
May 25, 2018 at 16:09
Yes, Pragmatism is a pretty wide term (especially if you include neopragmatism) but basically it's the epistemological approach I subscribe to.
May 25, 2018 at 10:45
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...
May 25, 2018 at 06:29
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...
May 25, 2018 at 05:54
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...
May 24, 2018 at 09:11
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 ...
May 24, 2018 at 07:18
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, ...
May 24, 2018 at 07:06
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...
May 22, 2018 at 19:11
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, ...
May 22, 2018 at 17:18
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...
May 22, 2018 at 17:05
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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...
May 22, 2018 at 16:44
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May 22, 2018 at 16:17
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...
May 22, 2018 at 09:05