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New age was always more popular than old age The grand purposes and death defying feats of mutation were same shit different day The balm of melanchol...

I thought it was cool.

OK. I didn't say he discarded ostensive definition all together. But we agree that showing most definitely does not account for all of language learni...

Is this a quantum theory thing?

Maybe you could help me understand your view. Witt discarded ostensive definition as a thorough-going explanation for anything because he recognized (...

Americans usually don't accept the executive and congressional control being of the same party (for very long). It would be normal for Democrats to ta...

Oh, well I'm glad I asked, then.

I think you're going to have to come up with something a little more creative to do with your bishop to win this game. Everybody on this thread disagr...

I don't know of any analytic philosophers who would claim that all language is propositional. When I think of things analytical types might be holding...

OK.

My guess is it's a little of both. The most rational reason for the UK and France to reverse policy on being friendly to aliens is if their unemployme...

That actually does sound interesting. Thanks.

I think the point you're missing is that it's what people think it means that's important. Thus I asked what people think it means. Plus the title of ...

I'm sure you have a learned butt. It does occasionally stink, though. This thread is on a little nothing website in the middle of Nowhere, Internet. I...

Not really trying to teach anything about Wittgenstein. I asked a question. If at some point I failed to point out that I was expressing my limited un...

I think the consensus of the folks I've talked to in this thread is that the concept of language games is not as distinct from propositional meaning a...

Really? Why do you say that?

Nope. This thread is based on a comment from mcdoodle in another thread.

You didn't follow my point (you'd have to keep reading.) But you and I are in agreement. Sometimes reference is inscrutable. Sometimes it isn't. If la...

It was failure to talk about blue-collar unemployment. Wikileaks about emails.. eh.. nobody understood what that shit was about anyway.

Ironically trump couldn't have won without the American Latino vote. Thanks a lot guys.

Your perception of us is bound to differ in some ways from our perception of ourselves. I was just explaining that nationalism requires some conscious...

Really? Do you mean with something like a work visa?

I'm patronizing you. Patronize, patronize. Nah, nah, nana. He was explaining to me why being in the EU doesn't mean much to eastern europeans. I thoug...

Settle down Sapientia. It was just a second generation Croatian explaining some things about the EU to a severely ignorant fellow American.

This is why I appreciate sime's take: philosophy is one area of life in which the flexibility of language can become a pain in the ass. So as to avoid...

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Cool. So you see language itself as a means of communicating ideas? I respect that this perspective is meaningful to you, but it just isn't particular...

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I didn't quite follow all of that. Brexit was a reaction to London being out of touch?

Yes. He said both France and the UK are changing.

Very similar to that.

I think we'll take off into outer space and become Lords of the Universe.

I already toldja. Read my above post starting with "looking at it propositionally"

I think he's just one of those old school dudes who has problems expressing emotion.

Yes. I know. You're confused by my usage because you don't know what a proposition is.

your sense of humor is triple x, but you're paying for this website so... no complaints

The US nudges China to start dealing with it. China will start dealing with it.

Cool.

Stop whining about the national debt and pay your share of it. Uh... how about a bigger military instead. Yes... that sounds right.

Sure. So I think "language game" is supposed to be anti-propositional. Looking at it propositionally, we would read W's writings, maybe talk amongst o...

So on the one hand, I think of W's thesis in propositional terms (which pays close attention to the context of an utterance). By that means I arrive a...

You said "reasonable inferences." I'm not trying to advance a thesis here. I'm asking. Do you picture reasonable inferences as something other than a ...

So ideas. Right?

Sure. Something other than sensation. What is it?

I see. Thanks!

A guy told me that other than the UK, Spain, and France, Europe is fairly nationalistic and unfriendly to aliens. The situation that exists in the US,...

So the OP is asking if "language game" is a pawn in a language game. Is it?

For those who believe viewer and tree exist, the OP is asking something about the viewer's experience. What the viewer sees changes from moment to mom...

I'm not suggesting in the OP that one should doubt the existence and temporal integrity of either tree or subject viewing the tree. You exist. The tre...