Metaphysician Undercover

I don't see your point. He is exactly saying "that cannot be said: it makes itself manifest", right after he has explicitly said it; "there are laws o...

Not only does the argument have no existence "for me", but plainly and simply, there is no argument. There is persuasive talk, meant to evoke sympathe...

How do you suppose that this passage says anything whatsoever about what cannot be said? How could "recognizing our condition" produce any conclusions...

That's right, the premise I stated is not stated in the text. But it's implied by the conclusion made at 6.5 - 7. That section is stated as a conclusi...

I see the issue as sort of two-fold, the premise and the conclusion. The primary premise is at the beginning of the book where language is characteriz...

We need to consider the age old incompatibility between being and becoming. A proper understanding of "the world" needs to include both. "Fact" refers...

The problem is that in the Tractatus Wittgenstein was demonstrating a very strange conception of "the world". For a seasoned philosopher it's very dif...

I assume that these three kinds of knowledge are the reason for the triangulation. As you might be able to tell from my post, I object to the objectiv...

Well, I don't see the need even for an "object" at this point. We have the subject, and the subject's relations to what is outside, or external, to it...

I don't like your use of "we" here. It implies a type of generalization which is not applicable in the context. If there is something about your exper...

No solicitation here at TPF. As a matter of interest, what principles do you think distinguish between honest solicitation and scamming?

But it might be better to have at least one rock in hand, and the will to demonstrate what an active rock can do.

Who's "DR. MARTIN"?

When a philosopher has read material of another philosopher, there must be conscious interpretation of the material. Therefore such influence cannot a...

Is there really such a thing, for Kant, as what the individual can't know? Or is it the case that there is only such a thing as what the individual ca...

As if that thing knows what "comfort" feels like. The most effective form of deception is the most subtle. Modern technology has given us the ultimate...

Above, I call such nonsense "metaphor", language on holiday, idling. I think that this totally misses what "thought" is, as @"Count Timothy von Icarus...

Some of us are stuck on the treadmill of metaphor, otherwise known as idling.

Do you mean spurious accusations? Or do you think of me as a rat or something like that? I've known that proponents of German philosophy tend to defen...

However, if it is the case, that the described condition which Freud called "sublimation", is really quite similar to Hegelian "sublation", and Freud ...

Interesting. On further reading I see that Freud's "sublimation" has some resemblance to Hegel's "aufheben" which I translate as "sublation" (if I rem...

Oh, yes, sorry about that, I never ran into "sublimation" in philosophy, and I guess I just read the word in the title as "sublation". So, I guess I d...

I wouldn't use that word "negation", and I don't particularly like the framing of the op, with the term "sublimation". This is because I do not believ...

Reality is actually very amusing, that's why metaphysicians are generally of a good humour. The problem with this perspective is that illogical though...

I apologize for the misunderstanding, but you really did say "I think...", and you did not mention Wittgenstein in that opening paragraph at all, so I...

This is an interesting statement. With "asking questions that cannot be asked", you seem to imply that philosophy is doing the impossible. And when I ...

Since soundness requires true premises, and the logic you are talking about proceeds from axioms, which are not truth-apt, instead of from true propos...

The modern form of contraction, acronyms and such, have no sympathy for the unnecessary apostrophe, leaving the apostrophizers in the footnotes of his...

I suppose it's like slang. Just the sight of it makes me think wth is that mofo doing on a hbs (high brow site) like this.

In my educational process, I was taught that in formal writing one is not supposed to use contractions. Maybe that dates me, and puts me past the best...

What the fuck is a backtick? Is it a blood sucking Lyme disease causing insect that you can't get rid of because it's in the centre of your back? That...

I do not think I would agree with this Heideggerian distinction between fear and anxiety. It is not the "entity within the world" which is the source ...

I wouldn't see "silence" as "death" from what I've read. Silence is the language of the imagination, and imagination is very much alive. In the case o...

To continue what I pointed out yesterday, that I think you have things backward, I'll address the problem with this passage in the op. What you "see",...

If I was sincerely dead, you'd surely know it, because I'd be signing off on all my posts with "sincerely dead".

I'll express an opinion on this, even though it's difficult to say anything confidently without knowing the greater context. Also, I'm really not fami...

I wonder what "nicknamed" would imply in supposed rigorous logic.

That's better, it's more relaxed in the lounge, and may serve to lower the tension by a few foot-pounds or something like that. I hope there's no drin...

As I indicated earlier, the issue is with the way that x=x is interpreted. Unless the interpretation employed by "identity theory" is consistent with ...

I don't think we can make the distinction you require, in this way. The problem is that activities which are conducive to "harmony" are judged as "goo...

I agree that anxiety will persist even during activity. This could be anxiety in relation to the end, or goal, or it could be in relation to something...

That's a good example of a crackpot reply. You are avoiding the issue, by switching to "identity theory" rather than the law of identity. The problem ...

No, the law states "a thing is the same as itself". Nothing here says that the thing cannot change as time passes. But all those changes are necessari...

The issue I'm discussing is identity. It's only indirectly related to the op, so if you do not want to discuss this, that's fine. What you can "prove ...

Yes, "the order is irrelevant when determining if two sets are the same". But the order of the elements is essential to determining the identity of a ...

Exactly, the ordering of the elements which make up "a thing" is essential to the identity of the thing. Therefore "identity" in set theory is not con...

I think this is a good point. It is not technology itself which can be judged as good or bad, but the way that it is used, which is judged as good or ...

I'm interested to know exactly how pressure is lost in pipelines, if there is no leaks. I've heard that in the USA a huge amount of natural gas just g...

Jesus Banno, if A is the same as B, as implied by "A=B", (if "=" signifies identity, or "the same"), then the order of A's elements is the same as the...

To begin with, the obvious. "Every element of A is also an element of B" is insufficient for identity by the law of identity because "A=A" implies tha...