I wasn't trying to explain what Wittgenstein leaves us with. I was pointing out something cool about speech that has to do with freedom and limitation...
Cavell should suspend his terror over this considering that his knowledge of the mechanics of human language is as limited as anyone else's. It's a fr...
Yes. I appreciate that point. I spontaneously noticed this some years back: start talking with no conscious end in mind. At some point you may notice ...
But I don't think even logical positivists thought that. On the other hand, I think it's only by an artificial analysis that we can separate the sourc...
I believe I understand what you're saying. Witt wanted us to observe how language is used among living humans in order to grasp how words come to have...
If you mean he wasn't talking about any particular set of conventions, I think that's clear. Since he encouraged the philosopher to observe word usage...
I think the answer to my question is yes. The US should be irrelevant. If it's not it's because some gruesome threat is on the scene from within or wi...
If they aren't identical, then what's the difference between them? Don't answer. I'm giving up. What we might have eventually discussed was how truth ...
Obviously tokens are not identical. Last try: You utter A. (here we see your token of the type A) I utter A. (here we see my token of the type A) The ...
So you utter A I utter A If A is a type, then there must be a token aspect to the situation. Your A (your token) is different in some way from my A (m...
I'm unfamiliar with propositions being spoken of as having semantic content. They are semantic content. You could just say "content" instead of "propo...
I don't think so. You have a car. I have a car. We do not have the same car (type.) We have the same type of transportation. You utter A. I utter A. A...
You utter sentence A. I utter sentence A. We uttered the same sentence. If this was a type/token situation, then you uttered your sentence and I utter...
Whatever it is, it's not physical sounds or marks. You should be able to get that intuitionally by noticing that you and I can utter the same sentence...
Putting aside for a moment which philosophers believe that, here you are explicitly using sentences as truth-bearers instead of propositions. Why are ...
Then Travis is like most philosophers who The parameter in question is simply that the sentence follows the rules (leeway given for creativity). So th...
The example you've given would be a good way to explain what a proposition is. It doesn't really prove semantic externalism, though (not a hard versio...
That's cool. Could you give an example of the type of thing you want to explain? I'm not usually too impressed by explanatory power. Explanations come...
In regard to those questions, it's common to be interested in building an argument up to the answer dictated by one's ontology. You said you don't hav...
That's right on top of intensional definition. Two utterances have the same extension, but the extension alone is not adequate to convey the thought. ...
I was just discussing the meaning of enlightened with another poster. It's a case where we can go back and forth between a and the sense. There are a ...
If you say that's how people use the word in your language community, I'll just have to trust that. In that case, I'd guess there's never been a reaso...
Notice the same paradox surrounds the handle of the previous poster. The opposite of enlightened is something like deluded What does it mean if a pers...
Or maybe you meant mind-independent. The reflection of the moon in the mirror is there whether anybody's looking or not. I think I was arguing against...
Objective? Third-person data as opposed to first-person data? Weird how? I don't know if you've really taken it seriously unless you've pondered how i...
I didn't realize he was a thorough platonist. So you are as well? The image on the mirror is the sharable sense? I was thinking about meaning today. I...
My mind was blown the first time I came across a person who even considered the notion that an idea might be somehow owned by the stuff in an individu...
"One no longer asks if a man is upright, but rather if he is talented; nor of a book if it is useful, but if it is well written. Rewards are showered ...
There are other drugs they might try, but dialysis is also an option. If they're saying his lungs don't sound wet, I don't know what it is. Probably b...
Chronic kidney disease is pretty common. People can have it for years. It can be a cause of breathing difficulty. It can result in too much water in t...
They didn't have insurance historically. When they're sick, they go to the hospital. Hospitals eat the cost. It would be cheaper if they'd go to a reg...
There's a pretty significant drive to cut the American population down on both narcotics and anti-biotics. I'm wondering if it's in the light of that ...
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