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I’m not quite getting your question. If you replace a major concept with another, it loses the value of its point. Can you explain what you mean?

Surely, you can’t say that the only takeaway from the story of Isaac is that it means that sacrificing humans is not a requirement. Yes that is a prop...

Banno offers the moral interpretation. Hanover provided a functional interpretation. Combined it might say: “God wants your full obedience and in doin...

Killed two birds with one stone there. :snicker:.

Well, of course it's done through language. But that is not his major point. That is just a truism. His major point is that it is invalid to attempt t...

What I meant by this is that Socrates was not clarifying language itself but the notions and ideas of people, or its content. Wittgenstein is trying t...

:up: Yes, there was a conversation a while back where I believe @"Banno" asked what Wittgenstein got from Schopenhauer, and I believe it was as you qu...

Would you say what Socrates was doing and what Wittgenstein were doing were equivalent? This is itself some clever word-play. This is hipster fandom t...

I think this is recasting Wittgenstein as just trying to be a simple corrector of grammar rather than trying to make (anti-)metaphysical commitments. ...

How is this the case when he clearly is trying to show that anything that is not about objects and how they "hang together" atomic facts/propositions....

To invoke a bit of Zizek here, Wittgenstein is simply elaborating on his own ideology whereby language can only make "sense" if it is about discrete o...

I mean by this that why are things beyond the "atomic facts" discrete objects and not some monistic thing, like Schopenhauer's Will, or perhaps Plato'...

Unlike you, just because I have a philosopher in my name, doesn't mean I'm a blind adherent. Not everything these people say is accurate, correct, etc...

I mean, Wittgenstein didn't explain any more about metaphysics and epistemology per se in response to the responses. Rather, he doubled down on anti-m...

No I get it. I think it's valuable what you're doing- putting this into context of what was the spirit of the time (logical positivistic thinking and ...

Well, I guess so, but by way of criticism of what is missing- or lacking.

You've only explained how these particular people thought of it, not if it's correct or not. Whitehead, by proof of his later writings in metaphysics,...

Right, so where is this assertion coming from that objects must exist as a "substance of facts"? Why must this be the case? "Otherwise, the world is a...

The problem here is Wittgenstein's muddling of epistemological and metaphysical concepts without clear distinction or marking what is what. That is be...

That is why I said here: And especially:

As per usual with this subject, all muddle, and no sense. What do you mean "Objects are the answer to your question 'whence facts'"? Objects are . Tha...

And that ambiguity of definition to me, is where all these problems stem from and will go around in circles. His definition is like one in computer pr...

Objects are necessarily linked to atomic facts, as atomic facts are about the objects in the world and their possibilities. One can perhaps understand...

I think I brought this a while ago, but we are finally getting to the crux of Wittgenstein's (assumptions on/glossing over) metaphysics. He asserts ob...

War sucks. It’s not done like this anymore- a gentleman’s war with little population involved: https://youtu.be/B1A_Yab1UMA?si=-JwjGLyL0nDfh8wK But th...

Absolutely, the way I was using was like practical magic that affects the world, but the broader category of yes.

This is a bit of hyperbole. Certainly, Gazans are at greater risk of collateral damage from the war against Hamas. You asked a question and I gave an ...

My guess is returning hostages is a good place to start. As long as the asymmetry is that the bigger army wants their people back, they will be able t...

People criticize Netanyahu and the Israeli right wing for tolerating bad decisions on the Palestinian side. Don't provoke conflicts with more powerful...

Yes, very useful examples and analysis. However, I would only add that it should be explained how the magical act confers some positive or negative th...

Yes.. I think many people (maybe most) have some form of non-functional behavior related to magical thinking. At least, it's not as uncommon as we mig...

I think we can readily split sociological forms of superstitious behavior from psychological superstitious/magical thinking behavior. I think, going t...

:up: Yeah, antirealism is probably the preferred nomenclature. Idealism has some baggage. Either way, just based on the OP it seems this is heading in...

I think the OP might argue, we are having a field day with language here. Statements are made and discerned by agents with beliefs and a point of view...

Chill

I believe I addressed what concern you had of my original definition in my last post.

I see, well, I think I have defined it in a way that would preclude how you are generalizing its usage.

As a follow up...and a sort of thought experiment... What do you think of "psycho-somatic" disorders? This starts getting tricky because the delusions...

I think what I defined and 1a seem pretty compatible. If you rather it be "superstitious behaviors", that's fine. "Superstition" encompasses a lot of ...

I'm wondering though if there is a connection between the two. Perhaps the compulsion is a maladaptive form of the superstitious tendency in humans. I...

Unless you have insomnia :snicker:. But then, this belies the very point that one even should be in a place where they should be overcoming. One is si...

That doesn't make sense and you are just arguing to argue now. Do you have an actual argument or is that it? Because I already said why that can be sa...

Dude, saying "Well they did it get over" can be inserted against any claim against an ethical rule. Someone murders someone or steals.. "Well get over...

That can be said about literally any moral topic- not well-thought out or philosophical. Very internet trolling though, so not surprised on an interne...

Antinatalism is not promortalism. It's a strawman. Antinatalism is about not creating new life, not about whether, once born, it is moral or "worth it...

Good explanation of how the constructed Fiction (Signifiers structuring Mind) rides on top of the body responses (presumably, rather than instinctual ...

@"ENOAH" was pretty right on with his summary here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/882856 . Do you have a response @"ENOAH"?

Something no doubt Schopenhauer would have agreed with :smile:. I find it interesting, the evidence of our longing for some sort of calmness that seem...

So there are a lot of points to make, that it is hard for me to distill it in a concise way. However, I'll try from the perspective of deontology... S...

I must begrudgingly comment that you make a good point here.