Like all viral infections, stress in general, plays a very important role in the severity of the infection. The type of stress that an individual migh...
The legality of the acts is not the issue. The issue is whether some people who supported him disliked these activities. He applied the espionage act ...
Some times I really wonder about your capacity to read, tim wood. Why did you ask me this question? I gave you an example right there in the post whic...
Actually there is a significant number of things which Obama did, that many Americans disagreed with, consequently tarnishing his image in their eyes....
Haha, that's funny. Philosophy has a long history of rooting out and exposing deception. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all addressed sophistry as a s...
But Wittgenstein applies this to the entirety of the world, so it's really incorrect. What sense does it make to say that if we change what the person...
I would not quite agree with #3. I think we do have some knowledge of this "something", but limited knowledge. We obtain this knowledge through experi...
I agree with this, that the so-called "private thing" is not private, but not for the reasons you give, nor what Wittgenstein implies. It is not "priv...
So, isn't there a contradiction between 'the truth of these propositions', at the beginning, and 'the propositions are nonsensical', at the end? I int...
Right, when you get to the end of the book, Wittgenstein admits that it's all wrong, and advises you to throw it all away. He basically says I've give...
This is the faulty logic right here. If the difference between real pain behaviour and mock pain behaviour is the presence of real pain, you cannot pr...
I'm saying that there is part of language which cannot be understood. In other words it is impossible for anyone to completely understand the thing wh...
That the beetle cannot be shown is the condition laid out in the premise, which makes the two uses of "beetle" completely separate, distinct, and inco...
Are you serious? The Tractatus has got to be one of the most boring, simplistic, and straight forward pieces of philosophy, (if it can even be called ...
This might be Wittgenstein's position, and it might appear to be true logically, because if the object is necessarily private, it cannot be observed, ...
I didn't say Wittgenstein contradicts himself, he's very careful not to do that. However he invites you to make an interpretation which requires contr...
It might make sense to you, but for that virus to spread through a nursing home and kill more than a third of the residents in just two weeks time, is...
Well, to get it right requires an objective and verifiable definition of "pain". This is why Wittgenstein's whole issue, of whether or not we can know...
If Wittgenstein actually said this, it would just be a false statement, so it wouldn't really matter. But I doubt he actually said that because he's v...
Look at it this way Luke. Ask yourself, as Wittgenstein asks, what is the difference between pain-behaviour with pain and pain-behaviour without pain....
Why would it wait until the fall? The second wave would come right away. We're practising distancing, congregating with the neighbours would be counte...
Exactly, now you're catching on to what I'm saying, Luke. Thanks for the quote. How did you find that? The "radical break" which Wittgenstein refers t...
No I'm not overlooking that. That is the second language-game referred to in 3&4, in which the word "beetle" is used, but which is completely distinct...
You are willfully ignoring what I wrote. The scenario of #4 where there is "nothing in the box", describes a completely different language-game, one c...
No, phusis was not the Greek term for being. So if Heidegger introduced a concept of Being which is supposed to be equivalent with the Greek concept o...
Yes it might be the case that this particular language-game, that the meaning of "beetle" is entirely determined by private objects. But it is also th...
What I've been addressing as deception, Is the supposed conclusion Wittgenstein makes, that the box might even be empty. This possibility comes about ...
What you asked me to reread is TheMadFool's hypothesis. That is what I found to be incomprehensible. Truthfully, I find your writing quite clear, but ...
So, countries are in lockdown, travel suspended, extreme measures of personal distancing in practise, and the virus is held to manageable levels as in...
That's irrelevant, I'm not talking about "anyone", I'm talking specifically about the person whose box is empty. That person would be practising decep...
OK, just so you know where I'm coming from, I do not accept the idea of a "holistic form". I think this is an imaginary thing, and that any designatio...
If the "use" of the word is to refer to something which is not there, as if it were there, when the person knows that it is not there, then the "use" ...
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. When the deaf person is not hearing sounds yet is referring to the sounds which he or she is hearing, that is dece...
If the deaf person is not hearing sounds, recognizes and understands this, and yet is talking about hearing sounds, that is deception, just like when ...
Sorry, I already read it two or three times, and it just doesn't make any sense to me. It's quite plausible that my interpretation is "not true", but ...
Whether or not there is something in the box is always relevant under the premise of the analogy, because what you would call "the same use" would be ...
It's very relevant. If you allow for the possibility of deception in the use of language, do you see that "everyone's box has something in it" , and "...
As I said, it can't be used in the same way, without deception. Talking about the thing in your box, when there is nothing in your box, is deception, ...
There you go, changing the terms again to "contents". Didn't I point out this mistake to you already? I didn't agree that the contents of the box are ...
Not at all. I wanted to know in what sense you were talking about "being". Are you discussing what things have in common, "being", existence, like whe...
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