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Red itself is not the paradigm here. The paradigm is a sample, an example of a red thing, which gives meaning to the word "red". This paradigm may be ...
January 05, 2019 at 21:58
One could define a boundary --- for a particular purpose.
January 05, 2019 at 14:54
This is because meaning is use, and we cannot neglect that premise. We do use "red" in this way, as if it names something, e.g. "red is a colour". Tha...
January 05, 2019 at 14:49
I think that's very good, considering the difficulty of the passage. Did you read my interpretation from a few days ago: https://thephilosophyforum.co...
January 05, 2019 at 13:49
Notice that it requires the reader "seeing" what the author means, And since an aphorism is brief, there is a need for strict passage by passage inter...
January 05, 2019 at 12:59
Doesn't an aphoristic style require a strict, section by section examination of terminology to avoid misunderstanding?
January 04, 2019 at 18:53
The incompatibility between being and becoming had been demonstrated by Plato. Aristotle formalized it. I understand the argument as presented by Aris...
January 04, 2019 at 13:46
Actually I only said what the task of philosophy is not. It's not the same as the task of the meteorologist. This was to show the irrelevance of your ...
January 04, 2019 at 13:09
Really, this is a philosophical investigation with metaphysical implications. The task of a philosopher is not the same as the task of a meteorologist...
January 04, 2019 at 00:44
Here's the problem with this claim. If Wittgenstein wants to show that terms like "perfection", "order", and consequently "rule" are not defined by wo...
January 03, 2019 at 15:23
I really ought to just ignore this comment as gratuitous nonsense. But since you really seem to believe what you've said, I'll defend what I've stated...
January 03, 2019 at 14:16
On the contrary. The whole point to this first part of PI seems to be to describe how language is a rule-following activity without having to refer to...
January 03, 2019 at 04:45
Why should this bother you? It's how Wittgenstein himself describes a paradigm at #50 Notice that the object itself is the means of representation. Bu...
January 03, 2019 at 01:06
A paradigm, whether it is a physical or mental sample, is an ideal. That's why this concept of rules of correspondence needs to be dismissed. It is ba...
January 02, 2019 at 16:32
I see the point a bit differently. Yes, the paradigm is necessary for such a language-game to work, but only because he has stipulated this by means o...
January 02, 2019 at 14:20
I agree with unenlightened, it's not philosophy that you are looking for, maybe debating skills or something like that.
January 02, 2019 at 13:23
But do you see that what we call "will power" is opposed to this? Will power is what we use to resist the urge to act on what we want or desire. So th...
January 02, 2019 at 13:15
Will and desire are not he same. The will is free, but desire is driven by some underlying condition. The will being free is what allows us to choose ...
January 02, 2019 at 00:19
I don't see that rejection yet. What I see is that he suggested this idea, that names represent elements of reality, way back in the 40"s. In describi...
January 01, 2019 at 21:51
However, he has just gone through this big discussion concerning rules of correspondence. This came out of the idea that a name signifies an element o...
January 01, 2019 at 19:51
This is what you said: You are saying that there can be an end point without an order of procedure. That's contradictory, "end" implies order, by defi...
January 01, 2019 at 19:07
As per the discussion in this thread, it is a complicated relationship and we cannot say that one follows or rules the other. This is why we can talk ...
January 01, 2019 at 15:32
How do you relate #59 in this way? It appears to me like "meaning is use" has met the paradox of 58. We want to say "red exists" means that the word r...
January 01, 2019 at 15:26
Right, you think that there could be an "end point" without an order. You really like to argue by way of contradiction, don't you? Yes, a race has a d...
January 01, 2019 at 04:24
I think that in most forms of idealism the mind doesn't have a spatial existence, so it doesn't make sense to ask where is the mind, like it doesn't m...
December 31, 2018 at 18:22
It is an issue of temporal continuity At each moment in time, what exists at one moment is replaced with what exists at the next moment. "Real tree" i...
December 31, 2018 at 18:06
Moving along, at 58 Wittgenstein exposes a complex metaphysical problem. He has already distinguished between having a physical colour sample, and the...
December 31, 2018 at 15:22
I don't see how you can deny an infinite regress. If your description of "learning a rule" includes that the person already knows a rule, then unless ...
December 31, 2018 at 14:01
All I can do is repeat. If you do not know which colour "greige" refers to, but you know that it refers to a colour, then the name is not meaningless ...
December 31, 2018 at 02:45
Yes, I believe this is a good description of the tripartite soul. The spirit (sometimes translated as ambition), is like a medium between the mind and...
December 31, 2018 at 00:39
No, "we forget which colour this is the name of" says that we forget the colour, not that we forget the name. Not necessarily, because you might still...
December 30, 2018 at 23:05
"Infinite" is a description of the numbers, as such it is qualitative, not quantitative. Mathematics cannot deal with the concept of "infinite" which ...
December 30, 2018 at 19:16
Isn't that what a "rule" is though, a principle for judging correct from incorrect? If we are here concerned with "rules", but as you suggest, we are ...
December 30, 2018 at 15:49
You can find this mathematics right in your mind. It's really there, and actual. An hypothesis has actual existence whether or not you believe it to b...
December 30, 2018 at 14:42
Actually you seem to have misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean mathematics is necessary for building all things, but for some things. So my argum...
December 30, 2018 at 04:00
So far I am in complete agreement with StreetlightX's interpretation, and I seem to be in agreement with Isaac. I have been pretty much in agreement w...
December 30, 2018 at 03:41
I suppose it would be a moron who would spend multi-billions of dollars on such an erection. The question I guess, is why wouldn't the border wall wan...
December 29, 2018 at 22:56
How is it that mathematics is necessary for building things, yet numbers do not interact with anything? That's the nonsensical claim, that numbers do ...
December 29, 2018 at 22:40
OK, I see that, but then he proceeds with "what if no such sample is a part of the language..." and proceeds from here. So it is still undetermined as...
December 29, 2018 at 22:12
You mean, like saying that there is a number which has no definite value, but it is nevertheless a number? What nonsense is that? Mathematical objects...
December 29, 2018 at 21:29
So we're in good agreement here. This is where we may have a problem, and fall out of agreement. I really believe that there are difficulties with thi...
December 29, 2018 at 20:27
You don't see this as a problem? Imagine if I told you about something which has no specific, definite, or measurable colour, yet it does have real co...
December 29, 2018 at 19:45
That's exactly the problem with infinitesimals, their dimensionality is ambiguous. If it is not a discrete unit in any way, then it has no form and th...
December 29, 2018 at 15:45
I'm fine with this, but then it makes no sense to say, as you did, that if you are able to respond when someone asks you to "fetch a red apple" then y...
December 29, 2018 at 15:24
Continuum is uninterrupted. "Two points" implies two distinct places and therefore a boundary which separates them. So I assume that the "smooth trans...
December 29, 2018 at 14:11
That's the point, they are incompatible. And, the introduction of infinitesimals does not make them compatible. It's only an illusion. The problem wit...
December 29, 2018 at 03:23
Do you not recognize that as blatantly contradictory? How is that the rule? "Fetch a red apple" is the statement, what is said. If there is a correspo...
December 29, 2018 at 02:57
How would you define "useless erection"?
December 28, 2018 at 22:23
You seem to have little understanding of what "infinitesimals" refers to. An infinitesimal is defined by Leibniz as an entity, a unity. It was used as...
December 28, 2018 at 22:16
It's not "as simple as that" though. Right now if someone said "fetch a red apple", I would not be in the least bit inclined to go to the store and ge...
December 28, 2018 at 21:07