Metaphysician Undercover

If the words of a language which talks about inner feelings could not be known to another, we could not coherently talk about our inner feelings. Ther...

Luke, think about what "only the speaker can know" means. If I talk about my pains, can you know what I'm talking about? Of course you can. Then I am ...

I don't see your argument. A private language is a language in which a person speaks about one's inner sensations, and no one else can understand the ...

I don't see how the mention of "sensations" at 243 is relevant. The words of this proposed "private language" cannot be understood by another person. ...

Of course there is a connection, or relationship, the point though is that Beauty and the good are not the same. I see what you mean, "intelligence" i...

Why would you say this, right after insisting that he is talking about a "sensation" at 258? When he talks about the private language at 243 he says "...

Luke, your post is so confused, and your replies so brief and unexplained, that I cannot even begin to understand what you are trying to express, in t...

You are not grasping this correctly. He does not associate "the recurrence of a certain sensation" with the sign "S". "The recurrence of a certain sen...

That is how Wittgenstein dictates the example. There is "a certain sensation" which is signified with "S". Then Wittgenstein refers to this sensation ...

Good, we finally have agreement, "the sensation", referring to the particular sensation named "S" is ambiguous. Now we can ask whether this ambiguity ...

This is not consistent with what is written at 206. What people crave is the good, and there is no mention of "Beauty" at this particular section of t...

The question does not need to be answered. The point is that with no way of knowing what "the sensation" refers to, we can conclude that it is used am...

I've told you a number of times now, "the good" as Plato uses this, is not a Form. This idea seems to really skew the way that you read Plato, resulti...

We've been through this so many times now that I can't count them. The issue is not what "sensation" means. The question is what does "the sensation" ...

Uh-huh, just like I can identify a particular colour, as "a certain colour". It might be good for a guessing game, but not too good for philosophy The...

I look at the reflection metaphor as something more specific, something more scientific. We see in the mirror image, an inversion, right is shifted to...

Well, if he's talking about a particular item, or a particular type, referring to it as "the...", then this particular "something" ought to be identif...

Luke, if he says "a certain type of fruit", then the type of fruit is left unidentified and this is ambiguous. If he says "a certain type of apple", t...

Definite: clear and distinct, not vague.. If you don't see "a certain sensation" as indefinite and ambiguous, I don't think I can help you to understa...

I've told you already, type or token is not the question, it's only how you represent the issue. Let's suppose that Wittgenstein's use of "the sensati...

"S" clearly refers to only one token, as is indicated by the definite article, "the" sensation. That's what "the" means, a particular member of the ty...

So the ambiguity is with respect to how that person, or anyone else for that matter, knows that this sensation which occurs at a later time is "the se...

Here's where the ambiguity lies:

My mistake, but that's not where the ambiguity lies.

I think we all know that it's ambiguous. Only a few, including yourself, refuse to admit it, despite knowing that it is..

I don't know, because as I say, what you call "Wittgenstein's instructions", are ambiguous. Why would the person mark a new "S" every day for ten year...

Luke, my issue has always been with Wittgenstein's use of the word "sensation", in particular, his reference to "the sensation" at 258. Our disagreeme...

You incessantly refuse to acknowledge Wittgenstein's use of the definite article "the". The issue is not strictly concerning the word "sensation". The...

Particular and universal are not opposite to each other, they are categorically distinct. For example, hot and cold are opposite, and these opposites ...

OED: ambiguous 1. "having an obscure or double meaning". Maybe you have something else in mind for "ambiguous", or maybe you don't think that Wittgens...

I brought it up, because our disagreement on interpretation, and the fact that we could not resolve that disagreement with two months of discourse, is...

This is not how Plato represents Parmenides in "The Parmenides", as indicated by the passage I've referred to above, at 135. It is not that Parmenides...

Sorry Luke, I will not go back to where we were two months ago, and pretend that we didn't already discuss this. And you do not seem to have any grasp...

Red is a colour. Pink is a colour, so are brown and blue, and many more. The definition is very ambiguous because there are many colours and it provid...

But this is the point which Parmenides makes at the end of 135, when he speaks about visible things, and "their wandering between opposites". He says ...

The analogy doesn't work because a hand is something different from a finger. Five fingers does not make one finger, it makes something different, one...

There is no question that defining "sensation" as "an inner experience" is extremely ambiguous, just like defining "green" as "a colour" is extremely ...

I would ask how is it possible to not argue against such an idea. "The One" appears to me, to be presented by Parmenides as being self-contradicting i...

That's interesting. If I understand you correctly you are saying that what a person derives from a sign, is dependent on what they want to derive from...

I've quoted it numerous times already. I didn't say intention removes ambiguity, I distinguished between intentionally creating ambiguity, and uninten...

I answered this: I didn't say "less than". And, I explained very clearly how the appearance of either, implies neither, when the appearance of either ...

How do you account for the fact that there are many different people with consciousness and awareness, when you say that consciousness and awareness i...

Right. Now do you see that if the author intends multiple interpretations, there is no such thing as the correct interpretation of the word? So if mea...

You do not seem to be recognizing the difference between using a word with a specific intended meaning, but which could be wrongly interpreted because...

I might agree that the One is the same as the Good, in the sense of "the first" principle. This provides a clear defining feature of the One, as meani...

I do not understand why this is so difficult for you Luke. Let me provide a very clear explanation by referring to your example. You say "I am going t...

The meaning of a word is only ambiguous when it is used in an ambiguous way. I agree that any word can be used in an ambiguous way, and therefore have...

A word's meaning is a function of the way the word is used. If it is used in a way so as to be ambiguous, then its meaning is ambiguous. Therefore the...

He calls "S" a sign, and "sensation" a word. Then he says the use of this word stands in need of justification. You really can't read. This makes no s...

I'm really sorry that your inability to read English has left you incapable of understanding the examples I presented. You seem to be having a similar...