Metaphysician Undercover

It's not being under the bridge that's cold, it's the truth that's cold and hard. Well then anything which one learns, and employs in an habitual way ...

Yes, "you're no longer playing the game". That's the point. At this point, your humanly endeavour (throwing the knight out the window) is not game-lik...

This doesn't really make sense to me. If 12x12=144 is a hinge, then isn't 10x10=100 a hinge, and 2x2=4 a hinge, and any other equation? So, wouldn't a...

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I think at one point Wittgenstein implies that true "hinges" would have to actually be prelinguistic, and would be granted to animals other than human...

There's no point to this line of discussion. "Hinge" is not well defined, and as I explained above, this approach is nothing but a Wittgensteinian mis...

I think this would work very well, and something similar is probably working very well already. Illegals wouldn't even try to vote because there would...

That is the solution posed in The Meno. But I think it is actually posed as obviously unacceptable. What Plato does in The Republic is place "the good...

Straight six from the late seventies, You're right, the V-8 didn't make any sense. The Gremlin was supposed to be a fuel saving economy car. The Ameri...

I believe Plato resolved Meno's paradox in The Republic, by positioning "the good" as outside of knowledge.

Google tells me that would be Kurt Cobain. Could have been, I do believe he had some aliases, and he played in a band. He always laughed at metaphysic...

So the babies are going to hang on to their birth certificates so that they'll be able to vote when they hit the legal age. Or maybe your mommy might ...

I don't need to. My cousin had a Gremlin, and I had the 8 tracks. He said we were doing 80mph, but it was rattling like a Lada at 60. Then my boss too...

I like that.

Yes, I believe that concepts like 3 and polygon exist as individuals following prescriptive rules, doing what they ought to do. It is discipline. Plat...

This is not true. Have you never watched a child learn to speak? It is not true that a person "only speaks because they have a prior concept". Your ex...

The difference between prescriptive rules (how one ought to behave), and descriptive rules (post hoc inductive statements about behaviour) is very imp...

I still don't understand what you could mean by "concept". Sure we can all use words such as those of your examples, "freedom, tree, happiness, colour...

I love this line. It just demonstrates Trump's MO, of saying whatever he thinks might get people riled up. If he was a little bit more in tune with wh...

I like that, when the speaker of the dialect says mine is the one without accent. Somehow, it always appears that way.

You're example does not make sense to me at all. If the concrete principle is “don’t touch a hot stove”, then the principal concept involved is "do no...

Doesn't, "an abstract idea that serves as a foundation for more concrete principles", say to you, "logical structure with formal rules"? What else, ot...

Interesting, thanks frank.

I would not use the word "concept" here. I think concepts are logical structures with formal rules. Instead, we both know how to use the word, though ...

The ancient phrase "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" refers to a subjective truth. So it's not a new trend.

What I had in mind was more like the difference between the dictionary definition of a word, and what the word actually means in any particular set of...

I see trump is trying to rile up his racist followers to criticize the NFL. Maybe that explains why he randomly put out that Obama tape the other day....

I think you ought to consider that "use" has two principal meanings, one referring to the universal, the other the particular. So in the "use" of a to...

Inside a practice, or a speaker would be internal to the mind of the person who performs the act. But the rule is something external to this, by Wittg...

What!? No wonder they're long gone.

Usually there's something mixed with the olive oil, balsamic, and maybe some other flavouring, and you dip the bread. When I take it as an appetizer I...

For Wittgenstein, as stated in PI, rules are necessarily external. This is 'the essence of a rule' and it provides the basis for the distinction betwe...

I would say yes to the first question. There is clearly room for improvement on mathematical principles, therefore new fields waiting to be discovered...

I think this is an interesting way to put it. The necessary condition may not be sufficient, likewise though, the sufficient conditions may not be nec...

Hi , I think we're actually very close to being in complete agreement here. We both place the inner feelings as prior, as "what make these language ga...

I believe that this is a complex point, which should probably be looked at more closely. When someone says "I'm in pain", often they have inspected th...

Come on Banno, get with it, and quit your ridiculous straw manning. I'm saying there's no such thing as "numbers". Unless you are referring to the sym...

Sorry, I don't see the relevance. We can do arithmetic without assuming that there are numbers which are positioned in between other numbers. All we n...

Let me tell you something about Epstein. Everything published about him which is "clear", is what he wanted the public to know. What he was really doi...

Banno, the assumption that mathematical objects exist requires justification or else you're just talking through your hat. When anyone tries to justif...

Go back and finish reading my post, instead of just replying to the second sentence.

If the rules of a single system contradict each other, as in the example, then "learning to use the rules" has a nuanced meaning, which includes choos...

I tend to agree with Hanover on this matter. A living being is continuously exchanging carbon with its environment. How could you date its carbon, whe...

That's insignificant drivel. We could say it about any discipline, they all consist of techniques governed by rules. That's education, learning the ru...

American billionaires, and their banks are not a "state". Furthermore, you need to distinguish between the targets of the extortion and blackmailing, ...

Follow the money. Take a look at Epstein's funding.

Which "state" would that be? The proposal of "state-run" requires that there is a specific "state" which runs it. The mention of association with a nu...

What about "purple rain", would that qualify as a strawman representation of "purple haze"?

I agree. Wittgenstein understood set theory is platonism, and rejected it as an inadequate representation of thinking. Thinking is the private propert...

OK, so you believe that mathematics is very much comparable to metaphysics, as I suggested. Do you also believe that to maintain consistency, if a phi...