You’re being pedantic. You said “ancient text” in the OP and the second term in parenthesis was clearly a suggestion that would make sense (at least t...
Women do get paid the same amount for doing the same job. That has been the law for a long time. The amount of data showing that women get paid less f...
If you use a quote please provide the source. Thanks. The proble most people have with Jung’s concept of “archetype” is the difference between conscio...
I’m going to start having days based on inanimate objects. Today is now my official Table Day ... hope the chairs don’t get all offended! :D Note: Tom...
In the simplist terms possible I believe education should be about helping people hone their natural inclinations to explore the world. The difficulty...
Why do you think I am kidding? Does a single nurse treat millions of people every day? No. When they go home and sleep are they still caring for their...
Privilege is not s dirty word. I am privileged for many different reasons, and I imagine what I deem “privilege” others would view as a detriment to t...
You meant “delusion” I think. It is like saying “I reject being born!” it’s complete nonsense and probably due to a lack of understanding what the ter...
Funny, I think the opposite. For starters a truly global community is a recent thing. I see civilization becoming more of a global social entity rathe...
It’s both an epistemic and semantic problem. In some contexts “belief” can mean “based on reasonable evidence” and in others it can be used to mean “r...
Human society has gone through some dramatic changes and more is on the immediate horizon. In the Western world women are doing pretty great - if anyt...
Nobody with any sense denies that the climate changes and has been changing. You may as well class any fear as being “Archtypical” and you’ll have som...
I think the remark about the Rosetta Stone may help here. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient artifact. It is not correct to say the “language is still in...
You used the word “text”. If you call something a “text” then you’re saying it is a “text”. Don’t blame me for your lack of clarity. You are presuppos...
Incorrect. You set the proposition of “ancient text” not “ancient squiggles”. Either way I assume we’re dealing with an archeological artifact (manmad...
History means “written” (“histo”). Prehistory refers to the period before written/writing evidence. We know something about the lives of people in the...
People tend to argue from extremes because its easier. Others use usch hyperbole to highlight a point rather than declare it as absolute - some mistak...
Given that writing things down for future generations makes something “meaningful” to the scholars of the time. For ancient texts even more so given t...
I’m a little torn here because I agree with the sentiments expressed in general but not the path taken to get there. In the second post if I employ so...
You seemed to have missed my point. Sane people don’t “deny climate change”. This is a false label/accusation because they are skeptical about the cau...
I think calling all people who question the causes, and the practical solutions of climate change “climate change deniers” is insulting. Given that wo...
This is very simple. Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) are induced by various different physiological stresses. The main stresses are fasting, tra...
Sorry guys I dropped the ball here! Life happens :) How’s the discussion going? Where we all at (roughly speaking?) Oh ... unenlightened ... referring...
And that is precisely not what W is talking about. He is referring to “language,” as in like this here thing we’re using now. People with no language ...
W uses the term “ostensive” in the sense of someone literally pointing at some given object and/or one of its qualities - then he says they are both j...
Ostensive is used in linguistics to denote how the meaning of a word is given to someone else - usually a word that has a more abstract concept, that ...
I reckon pushing onto 50 is best. Given that the holiday season is pressing in on us I am looking to reread up to around the 100 mark by new year and ...
It assumed there are rules. We can certainly “play a game” without knowing the rules; which maybe where some confusion lies in your exchanges above (o...
It is “conventional” to breath. Is it also “correct”? This is certainly deep, deep down underneath the Investigation. I don’t think we’re anywhere nea...
We certainly don’t arrive at the term “number” before we have the terms “one,” “two,” “three,” etc.,. To make this as clear as possible: If I point at...
I’ve always liked the view of language as a game. What is magical about it to me is how play and language correspond. If you think back to childhood w...
Note: I was thinking of it in terms of a foreigner trying to communicate the colour “red” to someone with no inkling of the language they were speakin...
I simply meant that to point out “red” you need to collect objects that are red. Thus you’ve developed a set of items that are red. The same goes for ...
There are physiological markers (hence the shift from “mental illness” to “brain disorder”). They are not black and white and not easy to see. Medicat...
Reel back 5-6 pages and look? I cannot help if people ignore what I propose. I said to discuss the intro and 1-7 and you started jumping ahead. This i...
Come on! Is this merely a forum for pointless sniping? Would it hurt to refrain from making useless posts ... like this one? The discussion is Philoso...
I like what it says at the start of the Cambridge one. Like I’ve already said I believe in reading the text first and not relying on guidebooks or the...
I know what he meant by “ostensive’. That is why I said it was a personal thought and irrelevant to the context of this thread. It was an example of w...
On forums people will shout and battle it out. I am not “leading” because there is no chance I can stop anyone from posting or readin ahead. I can try...
All humans are free to practice/act out any belief they wish to. Liberty doesn’t mean “do what you want without suffering the consequences.” The issue...
I think I already stated that it helps to make explicit what W means when he talks about “language.” It is clear enough from the outset that W is refe...
I think it was a polite suggestion; and a welcome one. I’m certainly no authority on Wittgenstein, but I do like trying to take on tasks where I can f...
I don’t believe you’re a physicist. Zero is a fundamental part of physics/mathematics. Also, what does the “devil” have to do with this? Something ver...
I’d say more of a “pace setter” if anything? If you wish to refer to a companion go ahead. The thing is I don’t have a copy of one and even if I had t...
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