Metaphysician Undercover

But in Wittgensteinian terms, or definitions, following a rule, or "rule-following", has nothing to do with one's intention or desire. Rule-following ...

Try this Mongrel. Observe any particular instance of usage of anything, such as a person using a hammer, or a person using a word. You can describe th...

How do you justify your second premise, that X cannot be both true and false at the same time? Your first premise defines truth as being dependent on ...

There is a big difference here. "Circle" is what we attribute to the wheel, it is a property of a wheel, the shape of the wheel. The wheel is circular...

One ought to be aware, and on the lookout for Wittgensteinian traps. That is the way that he used words, to set traps. That was his game. So it is a m...

Oh Wittgenstein loved to introduce such ambiguities, to lead the unsuspecting reader into one's own equivocations, rendering what he actually said as ...

Are you kidding? The nuclear weapons, instead of being amassed by just a few super powers, are now in many different hands. The great fear of annihila...

I guess you'd have to read the book.

Let's take your example, "cats fly" . Person A thinks "cats" refers to domesticated house cats, while person B thinks "cats" refers to wild cats like ...

You seem to completely misunderstand the nature of sacrifice Agustino. Cain murdered Abel. This was not a sacrifice. A sacrifice cannot be a murder, o...

A field is a mathematical construct. So what type of realism are you talking about, Platonic realism?

We're in complete agreement then. There are no necessary definitions, and a person is free to define the words as one pleases, so the determination of...

In a sacrifice, the thing sacrificed is generally innocent. The sacrifice is not to punish the guilty, but to make a demonstration to the higher power...

The issue is what provides the best foundation for morality, not what is relatable and useful to you. You like to relate morality to your own moral se...

Are you serious? It's not important which words are used to explain something? So I could explain "apple" as "a round crisp fruit", or as "a bright gr...

All you showed is that the sentence is interpreted with words. You did a bad job, and didn't represent how a sentence is really interpreted, because y...

Just to make sure you know, creativesoul, there's a member of tpf whose name is Meta. So, out of respect, you shouldn't make false accusations against...

No one understands "cats fly" as saying that cats fly. This is just repeating the same thing using the same words,, and that is not understanding. Und...

Notice: “not only do the objects of knowledge owe their being known to the Good, but their being (ousia) is also due to it, although the Good is not b...

I have one thing to add. This is the mistake you make, which you refuse to reconsider: all thought/belief presupposes a relationship of correspondence...

I am not saying that everything is subjective, nor am I claiming that correspondence theory is contradicted by what I say. What I am trying to show, i...

I agree, you argue that it is true that truth is correspondence because truth is correspondence. It is true that the cow is in the barn because the co...

Nice one Dwit, welcome to tpf. One question though, how can something infinite consist of finite parts? Consider numbers for example. There is an infi...

I don't see the point in the distinction between interpretation and understanding here. Each of these is subjective, so it doesn't affect the point I ...

If you can prove with logic, that God must exist, but this doesn't count as an acceptable proof of God's existence, then it follows that anything whic...

I clarified by saying that truth is attributed to an interpretation of meaning. Since the interpretation is subjective, then the thing which is attrib...

Because "God" is the word used to refer to the creator, not "god", it's just a matter of proper English. That's a lot of questions, but let me start w...

I don't see your point. Was Nietzche a long time ago? How did he kill the God of reason? Through assertion? If so, how is assertion enough to kill rea...

I disagree. What I said is that truth is attributed to the meaning of the statement, it is not attributed to the physical words themselves. The meanin...

Let me quote what I said a few posts back: This is the principle which Aristotle took from Plato, and expounded on. Notice that a "form" of the thing,...

No, I think this is impossible. The concept of "past" is dependent on the concept of "time", such that past implies time. So past, as something real w...

Speak for yourself on this. I was atheist from my upbringing, and started practising philosophy as an atheist. It took many years of reasoning before ...

OK, let's start with this. What do you mean by the "reality" of a proposition? Let's assume that a proposition consists of words, either written or sp...

As you demonstrated, nothing I give you will be determined by you to be worth your time, because you refused to even read it, citing that because it w...

The human being has an innate desire to know, this is what defines philosophy. You can refer to this as "self-interest" if you like, but to dismiss it...

Yes, that's exactly what I said is a nonsense contradiction, that "we" refers to timeless observers.

There's "internets" as well as "Internet". Have I been missing out on something all this time? Maybe I need a phone.

Uh, no, I think not. The quitter is the one who needs to try again. I believe it was you who did not read my post, and said: So I believe it is you wh...

What about God as the creator of things? Don't you think that there must be a reason why there are things instead of just randomness? What I mean by "...

I think your missing the point. The point is that the logic demonstrates that a sort of "Idea" of each particular, individual thing, precedes in time,...

Your thought experiment is impossible, contradictory nonsense. You project yourself to a fictitious future time, a time in which the universe does not...

Oh, I apologize. You have my sympathy, so I'll offer some advice. It appears communicating with me is just too complex for your simple mind. If you do...

You don't see the contradiction? You say "there is no time". Then you say at sometime our universe existed. If there is no time, how can there be "som...

Is there time (and therefore a past) without the universe?

As much as many people today do not believe this, it has been well proven by Plato and Aristotle, that the form of the thing is prior in existence, to...

I'll take the compliment any day. Thanks. That's better than what Sapientia says of me, that I'm just playing games and intentionally missing the poin...

This may be a slight misunderstanding because things are not so straight forward as you imply. There are two distinct ways in which we name things. We...

This is manifestly untrue. We justify things, one to another, and when we do this we use words, symbols, or some other form of demonstration. The demo...

1, He was Jewish, a Pharisee, opposed to the followers of Jesus. 2. He upheld the conviction that Jesus claimed to be Son of God. How much more eviden...

I understand that extraordinary claims, and extraordinary evidence, are part and parcel of living life. I also understand that life itself is extraord...