I don't think the tractarian 'state of affairs' describes a static state, as you put it. I think it is in fact quite the opposite, well no, badly said...
I am sorry, Gregory, for leaving your questions posed to me unanswered. Metaphysics, for Wittgenstein, is not meaningless, but senseless, it doesn't m...
Regarding the connection of Wittgenstein to Hume, I dunno, let's see what the internets are saying. I will just do a search "Wittgenstein on Hume", an...
And you just recapitulated that Wittgenstein was prejudiced. So? Where does this leave us? But regarding prejudice, you don't say something new, cause...
I remember that some years ago, I made the connection between what Wittgenstein was saying in the Tractatus, and previous thinkers before him like Hum...
I have no idea of what you mean by 'humean mosaic of atomic facts', but in any case, yes, W's purpose of language I believe it is "to say true or fals...
Russell said at some point that what they were trying to do was to break with the idealism of the time. Most probably he meant what we now call "conti...
Yes, I believe it is so, but only if there is nothing else but true/false, right/wrong. However if there are other things in-between or elsewhere, the...
I meant what I said from Wittgenstein's perspective at the time of writing the Tractatus, I am not putting forward any ideas of my own. And I think th...
Yes, but this - the truth-functional propositional calculus as you put it, applies only to matters of fact and the natural sciences, not to everything...
You are correct, I think, the Tractatus conveys a meaning but with it being senseless. "sense", in the Tractatus has to do with the facts, descriptive...
He doesn't admit that it's all wrong, he says it is 'senseless', which is a different thing than 'wrong'. Philosophical propositions, as well as "eluc...
Yes, he believed he had solved them at the time, but how, is the question. He says so at 6.53: The truth-functions have to do with the propositions of...
Because you said that he solved all philosophical problems by analyzing propositions via their truth-functions. Philosophical propositions, pertaining...
I think that the way he solved all the philosophical problems was by showing, or at least hoping to show at a later time, that these problems were not...
But I think that the book "Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom" by Hanson and Heath, gives some insig...
True, one could find discontinuities and dissimilarities as easily as one would find continuities and similarities, depending on the POV and the seman...
I hadn't heard of Durant, well at least not Will, cause I had heard of Kevin! Reading a summary of his work 'The story of Philosophy', I think that he...
And so snakes' view paints philosophy as a power-mongering activity or enterprise, wishing to devour everything in its path, just like the game 'snake...
I think that what snakes is saying is something like this: Philosophy, since its infancy, attempts to meddle in everything and in everyone's affairs. ...
Regardless, what we are talking about here is "significant phase changes in philosophy". Having read Durant's book, what would you say these changes a...
Anyway, just waiting on drake's response, but I think there is a passage from Plato's dialogue, "Protagoras", that relates to what we nowadays call me...
Who me? Do you object then? Alright then, objection sustained! Tell you what snakes, I'm with you, with you all the way, I also believe that there is ...
haha, this is what I wanted to write, well actually something similar like, "where are we? in the philosophy forum, so we are doing philosophy!". But ...
Why would anyone that doesn't believe in 'conversation', that it won't lead to a definite conclusion, indulge in such a practice, defending their own ...
I think this is a rather naive, or better simplistic and superficial, view that you have of philosophy, that doesn't take into account of all the fact...
And syllogisms are of Aristotle, there are no syllogisms in Plato. This is most likely where the brink happened, where the age of logic supplanted the...
Ah yes, forgot about this one. Socrates (in)famously never reaches a conclusion, but all his argumentation results in the so-called "aporia", which in...
In one platonic dialogue, with Socrates as mouthpiece, rhetoric is praised, and in another it is diminished, what are we to make of this? And in anoth...
I have no idea what the public thoughts of philosophers in ancient Athens were, but most likely there was a mixed opinion, if any at all, I bet some w...
Rhetoric, you mean, or even sophistry, but both in a neutral way? Is this an epistemological position you are putting forward here, as in the limits o...
We are judging all the time, by being both judge and jury, executioner maybe as well, hell, we could say that human is the being that makes value judg...
Right, cause StreetlightX made me think it in terms of peasants and peasantry, in a diminishing way that is. And then we could say stuff like, philoso...
Yes, I think that philosophers have made an art out of devaluating others, especially ethical philosophers. But if they are so arrogant and offending,...
Well, I am drinking most of the time, especially when engaging in conversation, so I'm really ok with that. :cheers: Really, I wouldn't have noticed! ...
But yeah, let us entertain that thought, that philosophers are no truth seekers, no wisdom seekers either, that truth and wisdom are in fact myths pro...
Yes, well Arthur was always upset, upset with something, a hard man to please, I wouldn't have invited him for supper, that's for sure. But do you thi...
But this brings us back on topic, because I think that philosophy, as it has been developed, perceives everything to be rational or logical, and fails...
A new situation? What do you mean? I guess there is always a new situation, you can't step into the same river twice, like they say. But I don't think...
By 'will', we normally think of what we want to do, but I think it is what we think is right, right to do, right in an absolute sense. When we are abs...
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