I've had similar criticisms of the CI. What counts as a maxim to be universalized? I think that his first formulation was trying to be too rigorous fo...
Where did you get that I called Witty an empiricist? Don't see it in my last post, though I mentioned the word empiricism. Making straw there Street a...
Right, hence me opening this thread about Wittgenstein and his relation with ontological speculation and science itself. This is a good answer. Howeve...
Yes this gets to the heart of speculation in general about the ontology of the world. I actually agree more than I disagree here. This thread was tryi...
This is probably aimed at the popular form of scientism as represented by the usual cadres like Dawkins et al. He makes a point for those who simply d...
The knot of experiential phenomena seems intractable. Either people have to bite the bullet of pansychism or they have to explain a dualism, hidden or...
. This probably works better in a diagram of sorts: Constraints interacting in a system (more complicated than this though as we agree) >>> Instincts ...
Right, that is a theory I posited is that, "what serves a purpose" is telling us "what is", and the confirmation is through accidental (contingent mor...
You are just going down the rabbit-hole of language games further. So how descriptive do you want me to be? I agree with your explanation here that it...
Again, because we are playing language-games. Constraints in nature, cause there to be patterns. If we want to call it n-rule instead of strictly "rul...
Explained above again. These are exactly the types of error Witty would hate. You know what I meant, I would think based on the context. No, there is ...
So here we are playing language games. As you know, the term "rules" has many uses in our constructed language games. By rules, I mean a kind of set o...
Your problem stems from this: If anything, Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation uses a methodology that does just that. He uses our own ind...
We have to be careful here not to mince words. There is this sense that people are using Wittgenstein as an escape hatch for any sense of meaning. One...
No, I wasn't suggesting he does, just the idea that grammar might have universal elements possibly due to how cognition in humans generally works. Cho...
I'm not sure if he would weigh in, but that might be a great one for @"fdrake", though I am not sure how much he is familiar with Russell's Paradox an...
There may be a bit of this in Witty in regards to language when it comes to research on the origins, neuroscience, etc. But he was getting at a priori...
My response is here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/295093. Anyone who wanted to further comment on this particular response to Waf...
Sure, weeding out what is an exaptation and what is truly selected for is a tricky area. I am not sure experiments that are/could be done to prove one...
Yes, but this is simply explaining the question again. Why is it so? If humans can't help but think this way, then why? Sure, we can say humans have a...
A quote from a book review of SR philosopher Steven Shaviro (https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-universe-of-things-on-speculative-realism/): Again, a quote ...
@"Fooloso4"@"Luke" These are good too :lol: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/290 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/284 http://existentialcomics.com...
It sounds like it is some emerging that arises from humans interacting in a world of objects. It just happens that way. I wonder what Chomsky's idea o...
I did, but you said you didn't understand speculative realism. I thought I might not be doing a good job of explaining so I sent articles and videos f...
What does that look like for you? Also realize, unfortunately, I have a lot of other stuff I have to do to not go homeless, so though I'd love to delv...
So I'm positive if I look back on these forums, I have seen you mention something about speculative realism. What is your take when compared to Witty'...
True, but that is more about the nature of science. It is more the inferencing factor that is not so contingent. Right, that inferencing thing again. ...
I am not asking for justification or certainty, but to look at the idea that there are facts that we derived from experience, that we can perceive of ...
No I meant the opposite, that those philosophers speculative philosophers. This lecture by a speculative realist philosopher, Graham Harmon does a pre...
So I first juxtaposed this "for us" approach against Speculative Realism, as they do not take stock in the "critical" approach which Kant really start...
But what are these facts compared to science? By simply saying it is a different human inquiry, so requires different language games, is misleading. T...
So, by telling me to read the literature and not telling me, even just a small summary of what principle YOU think I am violating when discussing Witt...
Ah yes, so all is language-games, don't try to debate it. Read Philosophical Investigations only. End of conversation. Sounds about as authoritarian a...
Why can't "merely" be used? It is in relation to ideas about realism, so would be appropriate in the context of scientific realism presenting some sor...
@"Fooloso4" @"Metaphysician Undercover" @"Valentinus" Probably a quote that would lean towards the Wittgenstein side would be: This is almost a puttin...
To put further explain: There is either something "for us", in our language-game that is hitting upon necessity about the world, or the "for us" way o...
Both :D. But is it just a difference in matters? Why do scientific facts obtain so well? You can say that it is similar to how a carpenter creates a m...
Yes, I think Witty implies with language-games that we have rule-following that forms by interacting and an interrelated, overlapping group of behavio...
But can some empirical facts be different in regards to being part of the language game? Is there something science is showing us? Certainly we recogn...
But then what are these "learn new facts". Witty's Tractatus has a picture theory. There is something regarding "states of affairs". But what are thes...
I do not want to be too black and white thinking with Wittgenstein. His approach is an interesting tool to look at meaning and language, but it is eas...
The description of being paranoid wouldn't be a rigid designator then. In another possible world, Ralph might not be paranoid. The name Ralph is rigid...
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