I think you should chill out Claran, and not be so dismissive of the earlier parts of the text. All parts of a book are believed to be relevant to the...
I don't see any mention of "grammar" as such, so unless this term "grammar" can be somehow related to what Wittgenstein is saying, I don't see how thi...
It's actually quite simple. The concept of "primary elements" is self-refuting, because these elements are said to be things which nothing can be said...
I know that music is a universal, and as such there is no violation of the law of identity. The point is that TS claims all things are particulars. An...
Actually, the Republicans need to figure out how to get rid of Trump and get someone respectable to run in his place, in time for the next election. I...
OK, so let's go back and revisit your claim then. You said something like, "the song Kashmir is music", as an example of how we can say "this is that"...
No, I'm not missing that point, that's quite clear, as a premise of sorts. But there's a bigger point being made which extends into the ontological st...
i believe the dichotomy of simple and composite at 47 ought to be treated as a digression. What he demonstrates is that it doesn't make sense to think...
I don't own a rocker, so it's not my rocker that I'm off, I'm off all the rockers. That's right, I'm saying that we sense individual pieces of clothin...
Of course not, this is classification. But music is not the thing you are sensing, you are sensing the particular playing of a particular song, just l...
By denying the reality that there is nothing physical, sensible, which the word "matter" refers to, you are creating a problem for yourself. All you n...
Trees are not matter though, they are trees. You violate the law of identity if you say trees are matter. I don't see the problem. You asked me for th...
The difference is that I can sense the existence of one but not the other. I can go out in the world and see trees all over the place, I can't see mat...
Not exactly. We call things by names so that we can talk about them. I am talking about the things which are named, not the names. So the thing which ...
The thing called "the tree" is something I can see, and reach out and touch. If that thing were called "the matter", then I could see and touch the ma...
There is a fundamental, yet very simple problem with this idea of "primary elements" which Wittgenstein exposes at 48. The problem with the concept of...
That's fine, but the issue here is whether "numbers" (note the plural) refers to a thing. I explained to you why it is always unreasonable to assume t...
I discussed this with you earlier in the thread. There is nothing in the physical world that we sense as matter. I'm not saying that the tree is an id...
Matter is not physical though, strictly speaking. And that's the demonstration which Berkeley makes. It's an assumption we make, an idea, which helps ...
46. A passage from Plato's Theaetetus is quoted in which Socrates is observed describing what "some people say"; that the "primary elements", out of w...
Why is this a problem? It's informative, and may serve as a premise for a deductive argument. It tells me that anger is classed as an emotion. If we a...
Some people just don't seem to be able to grasp the obvious. Because it's obvious they dismiss it as if it's irrelevant to any serious discussion abou...
This is doubtful, and where we might find some contradiction if we dig deep enough. The eternal circular motion described by Aristotle is a form, and ...
This all begs the question. Is there or is there not a real distinction between legitimate and illegitimate in the way that language is used? What is ...
Sure, I agree that's the case, but "numbers" is not a thing. That's the whole point. So your argument is nothing other than a category mistake. 'I can...
It's not a contradiction because his so-called cosmological argument demonstrates that if anything is eternal it must be actual. The actual eternal th...
Earlier in the book, Wittgenstein suggested that for philosophical purposes, a name is like a label which is attached to an object. Now, he demonstrat...
All of them of course. I want you to prove to me what you claimed. "I have them collected in my mind." If what I say is true, then what difference doe...
You have all the positive numbers collected in your mind!? Can you list them then? My claim is quite simple. A large number of grains of sand is colle...
I haven't collected them all yet in my mind. So how could they be collected in my thought? Furthermore, "all the positive numbers" does not qualify as...
Yeah, I was thinking that, I guess great minds think alike. But we're talking about "justice" here. Surely Plato didn't suggest that a philosopher mig...
As I mentioned above, we have no indication in the text so far, as to what "public" would mean in this context. We have people playing games, "languag...
You ruined the moment! When anything looks so good, there always has to be something bad hiding behind it. It's that duck-rabbit syndrome. The duck lo...
No it's not quit like that. What I said is that "the" implies a single object, while "multi" implies a multitude. I could have just as easily said tha...
Oh I like that, it's poetry waiting to be written ... love, the unexplored territory, let's go explore it. Almost makes me feel young again, and, in m...
It actually shows very little, if anything at all. It says "I love you more than words can say". And this is really a meaningless comparison as andrew...
So let's say that a just city is just, to the extent that it partakes in the true form of justice. And, a philosopher can recognize the true form of j...
Actually I don't really know what a multiverse is. In one way, "multi" implies a multiplicity of objects, but also in another way "the" implies a sing...
Yes, the aim of philosophy is understanding. But notice how "understanding" is a multifaceted concept, and part of that is a sort of empathy. So when ...
I thought I was making that distinction clear. I think your apparent obfuscation was pretense. We've been through this, one is memory, the other antic...
Just to remind you, at this point in the text there is nothing to indicate that meaning could be private, or "public" (whatever "public" might mean in...
No I'm not confusing these, I simply believe that there are physical forms which I sense. I also believe that the physical vs. non-physical dichotomy ...
Discussion of whether the author is right or wrong would digress into endless bickering, because in philosophy this question usually cannot be resolve...
There is surely an indefinite aspect of infinite, which is not so commonly developed in talk of "infinite". One definition of indefinite is limitless,...
I think it is important to understand this aspect of ostensive definition. What is being "pointed" to is the word, that is what is being defined. The ...
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