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Imagine that a thread is like a sand painting and right before somebody understands what you're asking, you just sweep it up and toss it off the mount...

True dat.

"Meaning requires context" is a philosophical insight. Is it socially conditioned instinctive word application?

So W used a philosophical doctrine to conclude that philosophy is a waste if time. Self-undermining?

Who said this?: "Other than the victim, it's a victimless crime!"

Per Soames, W was saying that philosophy in general is a waste of time because he assumed that any philosophical truth must be analytic, apriori, and ...

Folks are pretty insistent that W had a theory of meaning. :-d

Interesting. Thanks.

Positivism died. It's baloney.

A presentation of a theory of truth will draw questions about whether it meets its own criteria. Same thing for a theory of meaning. Does the language...

This is correct. He became deflationary about meaning theories. One may occasionally learn a definition ostensively, but there's so much language one ...

This is true. What I failed to understand is that "language games" is not a theory of meaning. It's a lead up to a rejection of any such theory.

Wittgenstein did recognize that there's more to language use than rules. He saw the impetus to conform in action and interaction. So at least it's int...

I think it's more existentialist than scientific. In fact the gist of the OP is existential. Maybe that means one can't actually approach it logically...

Not sure. You think algebra reduces to statements about arithmetic?

Sorry.. not quite following you. What strict philosophical use?

Do you mean he was looking to rule out contextless meaning?

Possibly. I see now that I shouldn't have responded to Luke's comment because it only served to divert from my question. Lesson learned.

So in what light should we see Wittgenstein? 1. Creator of a language game that includes "language game." 2. Performing in a family of language games ...

Yes. I guess the OP is metaphilosophy, but it's not asking if metaphilosophy is distinct from philosophy. It's whether we should consider philosophica...

Interesting perspective. I will note that it's irrelevant to the OP. Luke brought up metaphilosophy.

The first ziggurat was built in Ur. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it's a sort of temple. It represents a mountain dwelling of the god.

Trump speaks at an NRA convention. Nobody around him was allowed to carry a firearm. Damn.

What does he mean by "second order" there? By the usage I'm familiar with (second order logic), I agree. Metaphilosophy is distinct from philosophy, t...

Duck rabbit.

Like jargon?

But I take a grain of salt regarding your self reference. There is a portion of yourself that you can't see. It could be that I just don't understand ...

A vantage point always requires separatation. Saying something about a particular word doesn't compare to saying something about Language. But didn't ...

Causality is a form of analysis. We take the clock apart to understand it. A sign of this is that conceptually, cause and effect are interdependent ju...

Could you give an example of that?

So talking about language games is a language game. It's a game in which we propose to have a transcendent viewpoint on language. So do we have that t...

Good question. It's not because of the content of your visual field which simply contains grey and brown and greens, bright light and darkness.

I started failing to understand you right along this part. Is talk of language games a particular language game?

I don't know who UI is. Urinary tract infection?

The narrative starts with "you move around the tree." 2 is a premise. Would you say we should not be confident that the narrative is possible or knowa...

Yep

I'm not a tautology. I'm a little ray of sunshine.

Yep. I think apo is working on a theory of life that involves an unconscious signaler and an unconscious receiver. But maybe he didn't mean that, beca...

Electrical discharge along axons precedes the release of acetylcholine. I'm not sure why you're denying that. It's a science fact, dude. :) I believe ...

It's often referred to as the neuro-endocrine system because the two function pretty thoroughly as a team in governing the body.

Depolarization down the axon. It's tiny amounts of electricity, but then so is CMOS.

It's not vague. Neurons communicate with muscles, for instance, by electric discharge. Look into it. It's fascinating stuff. There is passive transpor...

Electricity is extensively utilized by living things. Brains use it.

It's not St Patty's day, so green horse probably means you're sensing LSDly. Unless it's made out of jade. Did you know Chinese horse art was the resu...

I have off-loaded quite a bit of my brain to android apps. An LG Stylo or some such is all the hardware I need. T-Mobile is good. Avoid Boost.

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Where would one get the money? Maybe the grocer pays you to take fruit off his hands. The airline pays you to fly around. The blue jeans company pays ...

So we need for people to be bored with their jobs. Otherwise it's unnerving.

You were looking for a reason to become a nomad. In the old days you would have gone off to pay respects to the holy land, never to return.