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It's not a limit of language, it's a limit of the principles employed toward understanding the thing. In other words, if the thing cannot be understoo...
April 02, 2019 at 11:55
The problem is that in QM we are dealing with the boundaries of "physical characteristics". If having "physical characteristics" is defined as having ...
April 01, 2019 at 11:49
The United States has been deeply involved, and holds a high degree of responsibility for the crisis in Central America, as Bitter Crank has already p...
April 01, 2019 at 11:13
This is from Wikipedia:
April 01, 2019 at 01:59
This is actually flawed at the base level. Each living being dies, and that's a fundamental discontinuity in life. Evolution, which is a changing of t...
March 31, 2019 at 12:39
That's barely more than 200 people a day. If the great, and wealthy USA does not have the resources available to process 200 immigrants a day, then pe...
March 31, 2019 at 12:05
What I think, is that the rule is "+3", as you indicate, the sign-post itself. According to the premise, "meaning is use", the meaning of the rule is ...
March 30, 2019 at 14:20
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Don't worry, us Canadians will always be part of your Kingdom -- well at least until we have a referendum, then bye bye. Get some advise from the Québ...
March 30, 2019 at 12:57
Right, that's the point, there are epistemic issues with "observations" no matter how you define the term. Sometimes the "observer" might be focused s...
March 30, 2019 at 12:40
Isn't the "quantum phenomenon" itself completely theoretical? There are some things, like wave interference which can be observed with the human eyes,...
March 30, 2019 at 01:11
Now the issue is that any information collected by the "reference frame", as "inanimate object", needs to be interpreted by human beings before it is ...
March 29, 2019 at 13:10
My apologies Fooloso4, insult was not intended. I was just stating an observation, and you did not supply your credentials as evidence of your credibi...
March 29, 2019 at 12:42
I'm starting to get the impression that you haven't read the Philosophical Investigations. He describes a striving for the ideal, check 98-110. The as...
March 28, 2019 at 22:25
As your example, of the media shows, it does not become meaningless. Meaning is use. Serving one's own purpose is inherently meaningful. Using a screw...
March 28, 2019 at 15:05
Right, so you do not see the gaping hole now? Wittgenstein has dismissed what he had assumed made it possible to represent the world with language. Is...
March 28, 2019 at 12:58
Using language to deceive does not completely destroy meaning, if meaning is use. It creates an inconsistency between the general and the particular, ...
March 28, 2019 at 12:32
Well, I guess we've come full circle, because I'm basically going to repeat what I first said about this issue. The problem is in how this all relates...
March 28, 2019 at 02:29
Consider that the principle which we call the law of identity, is not necessarily true, it's just a useful principle. So long as it serves us well, we...
March 28, 2019 at 01:41
Right, but we support abstract theories with empirical evidence gathered from observations. If, what is called an "observer" is not really an observer...
March 28, 2019 at 01:27
Do you understand Wittgenstein's premise, "meaning is use"? The meaning of any particular instance of words is what the speaker is doing with those wo...
March 28, 2019 at 01:12
All part of Trump's plan to drain the swamp. Now he can distance himself from those corrupt people, and claim credit for exposing and cleaning up all ...
March 27, 2019 at 13:06
It's a principle, "A is the same as itself". If there is no conceivable reason why this wouldn't be true then it's a solid principle. If you allow tha...
March 27, 2019 at 12:59
No I didn't say that, those were examples, not the "only two" possibilities. I also said the purpose of language, in general, might be communication, ...
March 27, 2019 at 12:34
I gave you the example, misunderstanding. In deception the purpose, or goal is misunderstanding. Meaning is use, and the person being deceived does no...
March 26, 2019 at 12:07
The problem is that the definition of "observer' is not consistent with what the observer really is, in practise. The reference frame, which is suppos...
March 26, 2019 at 02:17
All I can say to this, is that each person has one's own approach, one's own interests. What one takes seriously, the second might not take seriously,...
March 26, 2019 at 01:47
I hope you realize that an observer, without something observing is contradictory. A measurement is a comparison, between something observed, and a sc...
March 25, 2019 at 14:24
Not necessarily everyone is trying to win, but there are varying goals which people have behind their use of language. This is why it's a moral issue,...
March 25, 2019 at 13:59
An observer is one who takes notice of (and this means pays attention to) the thing which is observed.
March 25, 2019 at 02:44
You've misunderstood the argument then. "Perfect" here doesn't have to mean "ideal". In fact, it clearly is other than ideal. However, as I've explain...
March 25, 2019 at 02:34
As I explained, it doesn't matter how many possible meanings of "perfect" there are, it is the only one that serves Wittgenstein's purpose, of dismiss...
March 24, 2019 at 13:00
I'm talking about what one individual observer sees when looking into the mirror. My right arm appears to be my left arm.
March 24, 2019 at 12:47
That's a good question, but I don't know the secrets of the soul, so I can't help you with what other animal use to make choices. And, in the case of ...
March 24, 2019 at 12:42
The point is that he uses "perfect". And, as I explained to Luke, it is only by employing this concept, (the order in common language is perfect), tha...
March 24, 2019 at 12:17
Because I was afraid to speak When I was just a lad Me father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad But then one day I learned a word That saved ...
March 24, 2019 at 02:17
Forget about looking into a mirror, that might get real complicated.
March 24, 2019 at 01:57
No, I think that other living things choose their own ends as well, the difference being that human beings use reason in making these choices, while o...
March 24, 2019 at 01:45
The one stated at 98: "So there must be perfect order even in the vaguest sentence." You left out the word "perfect", he says that it has "perfect ord...
March 24, 2019 at 01:04
If you believe that we use language for the purpose of understanding each other, i.e. language is used to help us to understand one another, then you ...
March 23, 2019 at 13:33
A thing has a form, and the form is proper to the thing itself, as the thing which it is, a particular thing with a particular form. This form include...
March 23, 2019 at 12:47
What do you think about (81 & 98), old? Is a fuzzy, imprecise, vague concept, which readily gives misunderstanding, just as "perfect" as a precisely d...
March 23, 2019 at 12:27
I am questioning the consistency of what Aquinas wrote in your quoted passages. When things like human beings act towards their own ends, they freely ...
March 23, 2019 at 11:58
What are you saying, that a thing might be different from itself? So I don't get your point. You point to "A", and ask if there is a property of that ...
March 23, 2019 at 01:18
And that's a load of crap.
March 23, 2019 at 01:08
From your quoted passages, would you agree, that according to Aquinas, a thing's activity is according to its nature, and its nature is its form, and ...
March 23, 2019 at 01:07
That's irrelevant, words are not the only things with meaning. There is meaning in meaningful relations, that's why they're meaningful. I haven't yet ...
March 23, 2019 at 00:51
Right, but using words is not the same as "meaning" because meaningful relations exist where words are not used. Using words is one type of "meaning"....
March 22, 2019 at 12:52
I see this as contradiction under Aquinas' principles. God, and a thing's own nature are two distinct things. Either the thing acts as it does due to ...
March 22, 2019 at 12:42
The point though, is that to be courteous, polite, and friendly (and I believe this is what social relations are based in), cannot be classified as "u...
March 22, 2019 at 12:32
Sorry, my mistake then. I interpreted "driven", as an internal force, a drive like inspiration, spirit, or ambition, which causes one to go in this wa...
March 22, 2019 at 00:41