By "four fold distinction" due you mean the four ways in which "cause" is used, describe in Physics. I think the three degrees of soul are self-nouris...
This depends on how you understand "1". You can understand it as playing a role in counting, as you describe, in which case we can assign some sort of...
So to answer that question, you need to read, and thoroughly understand "Categories", "Physics", and "Metaphysics". To understand "Metaphysics" you'll...
Yes, there is no reason to call this an "error", you could have stayed with difference. Difference is the active cause of evolution, so it wouldn't be...
Read what Wittgenstein says about formal concepts at 4.126 - 4.128. If you can decipher that couple of pages you'll be well on your way. But on your w...
I know, so do I, that's probably why we're both finitists. Did you read what I wrote? It's only those who assume mathematics consists of some sort of ...
Philosophers approach the unknown. If they could agree on that they'd have agreement. But they approach it with opinions, so they kind of think that t...
The problem is that the nature of mathematics remains unintelligible to me as well, as it does to all philosophers. But some wrongly assume Platonic r...
I believe the nature of mathematics remained unintelligible for Wittgenstein. The quest to understand it was probably his greatest philosophical unacc...
There's a word for that, it's "manners". If you look for it on Wikipedia though, the preferred form is the French "etiquette". I guess we still look u...
An emotion, in its most instinctual form is the most general and vague thing, if it could even be called a thing. It becomes specified and narrowed do...
This would be a difficult call to make because we never get to see how the alternatives would have panned out. So the chosen approach really needs to ...
I think Trump is between a rock and a hard place with this virus. He derives a significant portion of his support from conspiracy theories, and the pe...
This discussion's going well. Soon it might obtain to the level of understanding which Plato demonstrated. Emotion was proposed by Plato as the medium...
So you should be coming around to seeing things my way then. We have less than perfect knowledge of pain. When someone has less than perfect knowledge...
"In any sense" means we'd have to consider various definitions of "know". If knowing requires absolutely excluding the possibility of mistake, then no...
I think it's been demonstrated that smoking weed as a teenager, and sometimes even into the early twenties, affects one's emotional development. So I ...
As I described, both of these have unknown aspects. I don't see why any of this is a problem to you. Do you believe that anything is known in an absol...
I wouldn't say that this is new, he distinctly says in the Tractatus that language pictures reality. The reality referred to is empirical reality, the...
Right, that's the issue I'm trying to determine, that's why I said that's the point. I think that the feeling which I call "pain" is in some way simil...
You misunderstand. I don't reject calculus, I think it is very useful. But under Wittgenstein's stated principles, in the Tractatus, mathematics canno...
So here we have the heart of the issue. We use mathematics to deal with things other than logical facts and states of affairs. We use mathematics to d...
That's the point. I went through this already, what I meant by "cause". We are talking about a type of feeling, and what distinguishes it from other t...
No I don't imply that. I argued that change is incompatible with fact. That's the argument I presented. And before that I said that if the world consi...
This is rather moot because more often than not, what is at question is whether what is provided constitutes evidence and support. So the person who p...
Do you really believe that a fact is something which can change? Let's take an example. Let's assume that at a particular time, a particular identifie...
"Pain" is what we called a type of feeling. What I argued is that there is an underlying process, and the feeling, which we refer to as pain has a rel...
If you have something constructive to say then say it. A "state of affairs", "fact", or "what is the case", is something which cannot be changed, othe...
Yes, that is the problem I'm referring to, the opening statements of the book, how he defines "the world". There is actually more to the world than st...
Correct, I can say that it is an unpleasant feeling, but I do not know in objective terms, what distinguishes a pleasant feeling from an unpleasant fe...
If the entirety of "the world", is what we can represent, or picture with statements or propositions, then how are we to relate to all that we cannot ...
So can we conclude that Wittgenstein's description, or definition of "the world" is unacceptable, and "the world" as we know it is quite different fro...
I've clarified this already. I'm not saying that the cause of pain is unknowable, but that it is unknown. And the reason, as I've explained is that we...
This is not at all an accurate representation of herd mentality. I see this statement as blatant deception. The vast majority of covid-19 related deat...
Clearly we need to go beyond instrumentalism to understand what things like feelings and ideas are. And of course there is going to be contention here...
Because we have to account for why the feeling produced is pain and not pleasure or some other feeling. Similarly, with the match, we need to account ...
The issue is this. If the essence of "pain", the defining feature, is that it is a certain type of feeling, (in this case an unpleasant feeling), then...
This would be an argument from causation, similar to some arguments used to demonstrate the necessity of God, which might or might not be acceptable t...
This is the issue I tried to address earlier. It appears like Heidegger may be reducing being to becoming, in the Hegelian way. This is the classical ...
You seem to be changing the subject. Having a "representative function" implies being used for a representative purpose. So if you are asking whether ...
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