Not in Wittgenstein's conceptual structure. Remember, to think that oneself is following a rule is not the same as actually following a rule. We must ...
The problem I see with Luke's reading of Wittgenstein, and Sam26's to an extent, is that they give priority to rules, as if rules are foundational to ...
However, it is the place where you find me. This is the scourge of Platonism. We refer to things like Ideas, and sensations, as if they are things, me...
This is what Banno doesn't seem to understand. He seems to think that he can make universal value statements such as 'burning books is bad', 'dishones...
I agree he uses "certain sensation" in the way of "specific sensation", or "particular sensation". The point being that any time he has an instance of...
Notice Wittgenstein's peculiar word usage at 258: " I want to keep a diary about the recurrence of a certain sensation." With the use of "certain" her...
Banno demonstrates a very strange and unacceptable notion of "fact", as if a fact could be separate from the knower who knows it. But we all know that...
Why don't you get down to the task at hand, and demonstrate why you believe that dishonesty for the purpose of bettering mankind, is supposed to be so...
Obviously, I am completely unaware of the purported self-contradiction within my posts. So where are you coming up with this idea that I'm being disho...
The issue you brought up was whether or not honesty is necessary in the goal of the betterment of mankind. Those who believe in the value of the noble...
Your ideas about the value of honesty need to be supported. Being a philosopher, I'm sure you are aware of "the noble lie". That the noble lie is some...
The distinction between natural and artificial is untenable in the modern world which has done away with the supernatural (God) as the support for the...
Banno doesn't seem to understand that when there's a pile of crap out back you get rid of it. Sure, someone will tell you later that some of that crap...
I don't see where you derive "it could not be possible if there were no rule governing his use of 'same'". That's utter nonsense. I can't believe that...
I don't think you understand the law of identity. According to this law it is impossible for two things to be the same. Only one thing can be the same...
I don't agree that the law of identity is a useless statement. I agree with Wittgenstein that there is no criterion of identity by which we say that t...
If you saw some of my discussions with Luke, you'd see that I've been arguing this for a long time. Wittgenstein is the person who gave me this idea. ...
Each use of the sign "S" is a novel use, because each instance of sensation is a new sensation. These sensations are only said to be "the same" throug...
I believe the key to understanding Wittgenstein's PLA is to grasp what he says about a "criterion of identity, 253-255. It is important to acknowledge...
You said it is "self-correcting". It is not self-correcting, because the corrections come from outside science, as I explained, and this is allowed fo...
Exactly what Thunderballs says, science is not self-contained. The corrections to science don't come from science. Science has provisions for outside ...
Science isn't a self-correcting system though, because it needs guidance from theory and hypothesis, which are derived from sources non-scientific, li...
Ever consider the possibility that what really happened is that Christianity provided people with the freedom to do what they wanted? And what they wa...
I'd go further than this, to say that experiences are never static things, but neither are physical objects in the world static things. However, this ...
As demonstrated by my argument above, the fact that "ouch", or "I have a pain in my neck", can serve as a replacement for crying, indicates these cann...
If you watch the Elton John movie Rocketman, it is implied that young Elton (or whatever his real name was) had the same sort of talent. He would just...
What you are missing, is that there is some form of judgement between the pain and the expression, as I described here: That it is necessary to assume...
Is it possible that he had seen it played before, remembered the process with a photographic memory, then practiced the finger movements without a pia...
No English teacher I have ever known has attempted to teach me the correct use of a word. Such a thing is impossible because no two particular sets of...
This is not an issue because the possibility of informing a second person of what S means is highly unlikely in the first place. "S" refers to one's o...
These are all things we assign to the body, in predication. We might say that the body has something real, a property which corresponds to the concept...
Your efforts are wasted on Banno. Some people think they know everything and refuse to learn anything. To address your op, there is no such thing as a...
Some words, like "water", we are very sure about, other words, we are less sure about. It's generally a matter of being familiar with the word and its...
What lies between pain and the expression of pain is some sort of judgement. The determinist will say that this is not a judgement at all, it's an aut...
Why do you say that the notion of correct usage becomes meaningless? As Sam26 says, the verification is not circular. The individual applies one's own...
That's right. And this is an indication of the inherent ambiguity within "pointing". To clarify, and resolve the ambiguity, we need to ask, 'what are ...
I'm glad you agree. Now consider that there are a number of different forms of these crucial statements. I would say that they are definitional. So in...
What about that mirror thing? It's pretty freaky. Just remember to account for the inversion or you'll get all fucked up. The mirror image is said to ...
The form of premise 1, as a conditional statement, is crucial to the validity of the conclusion, as what is used to determine the truth table. For exa...
It's a bit more complicated than this. He gives examples such as eating, the correct amount being the mean between too much and too little, and courag...
Well that's not telling me what makes it true. You are just repeating that it has to be true, necessarily. What makes 3 true, when 2 is stipulated as ...
What makes it impossible that 3 is false? It's not one of the three fundamental laws, identity, non-contradiction, or excluded middle. And I don't bel...
Moral guidance is to direct people in relation to the future. Future events have not yet occurred and are understood as possible. So there is no truth...
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