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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...
April 22, 2020 at 20:43
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...
April 22, 2020 at 13:55
So to answer that question, you need to read, and thoroughly understand "Categories", "Physics", and "Metaphysics". To understand "Metaphysics" you'll...
April 22, 2020 at 13:14
Uh uh.
April 22, 2020 at 13:08
What's that a doctorate dissertation? Why would you think you might get help with that here?
April 22, 2020 at 13:03
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...
April 22, 2020 at 12:54
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...
April 22, 2020 at 02:38
Yeah but garbagemen don't approach with the pretense of knowing.
April 22, 2020 at 02:12
No use for what?
April 22, 2020 at 01:12
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 ...
April 22, 2020 at 01:00
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...
April 22, 2020 at 00:49
So long as TPF exists for NOS to post on, the dough is rolling in.
April 22, 2020 at 00:39
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...
April 22, 2020 at 00:35
I believe the nature of mathematics remained unintelligible for Wittgenstein. The quest to understand it was probably his greatest philosophical unacc...
April 22, 2020 at 00:16
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...
April 21, 2020 at 23:57
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...
April 21, 2020 at 18:13
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 ...
April 21, 2020 at 17:17
Yes sir, documented verification tends to make people sure of themselves. But we'll always find the odd sort who keep shouting 'Hoax!', regardless.
April 21, 2020 at 17:01
https://yeeeesh-video.tumblr.com/image/616012286752112640 Would you buy a used car from this man?
April 21, 2020 at 13:25
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about them Russians. Thanks for reminding me.
April 21, 2020 at 13:12
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...
April 21, 2020 at 13:07
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...
April 21, 2020 at 12:41
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...
April 21, 2020 at 02:45
"In any sense" means we'd have to consider various definitions of "know". If knowing requires absolutely excluding the possibility of mistake, then no...
April 21, 2020 at 01:21
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 ...
April 21, 2020 at 01:09
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...
April 21, 2020 at 00:38
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...
April 20, 2020 at 14:28
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...
April 20, 2020 at 13:06
You misunderstand. I don't reject calculus, I think it is very useful. But under Wittgenstein's stated principles, in the Tractatus, mathematics canno...
April 20, 2020 at 02:48
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...
April 20, 2020 at 02:10
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...
April 20, 2020 at 01:59
Then why does Wittgenstein talk about pictures?
April 20, 2020 at 01:31
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...
April 20, 2020 at 01:27
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...
April 20, 2020 at 01:15
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...
April 20, 2020 at 00:51
"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...
April 20, 2020 at 00:45
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...
April 19, 2020 at 23:57
Bestiality? That's sick in more ways than one.
April 19, 2020 at 19:09
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...
April 19, 2020 at 16:00
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...
April 19, 2020 at 15:15
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 ...
April 19, 2020 at 14:24
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...
April 19, 2020 at 13:22
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...
April 19, 2020 at 13:07
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...
April 19, 2020 at 12:23
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...
April 19, 2020 at 11:38
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 ...
April 19, 2020 at 03:15
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...
April 18, 2020 at 16:24
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...
April 18, 2020 at 12:13
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 ...
April 18, 2020 at 11:30
You seem to be changing the subject. Having a "representative function" implies being used for a representative purpose. So if you are asking whether ...
April 18, 2020 at 02:40