But to strive one must have a direction and to critique one must have a conception of right/wrong, good/bad. So one cannot strive honestly nor critica...
Yes, my question was (in your terminology) how would one know one is facing facts without predisposition? Do predispositions come to us clearly labell...
Maybe, but you weren't referring to the objective, but the method, that's my point. 'Truth' cannot be both objective and method. One cannot say that a...
How can you ask "what is truth?" but only persue the investigation with a bias toward truth? What would be the point of the question if you already kn...
If you have already determined the task of the philosopher then I don't think you're going to get much out of this text. I claimed it was "sufficientl...
I don't think this chimes with what Wittgenstein was trying to do at all. He's quite clear at 90-94 about the purpose of the investigation in this res...
You've missed a very important qualifier in my sentence. I asked if you would suggest that the reason given was not sufficiently complete, ie not comp...
I don't agree that it is a big difference. That the human race will cease to exist is a big deal, the manner in which their extinction comes about is ...
As I've been out of the discussion for a while I don't want to hold things up responding to comments on previous sections, but I will say something in...
Yes, absolutely. Bad example of mine. I was only referring to his utilitarian view of eleemosynary duties for, as you say, rhetorical purposes. His vi...
Thanks. I should say the argument from epistemic peers is actually Peter Van Inwagen's, I just applied it here to highlight the seriousness of the iss...
You are aware, I presume, that there are different meta-ethical positions, yes? You are aware that the anti-natalist stance relies on a particular met...
Not an infinite regress, no. I'm pretty old, but even my birth was not an infinite amount of time ago. The true and full account of why it is raining ...
How is this assertion, on which your theory is based, any less subject to the problem of never being able to provide a determinate proof than the asse...
Empathy is the feeling of someone else's feelings. It is the act of mirroring their emotions in your own experience. It is not the sum total of all th...
Exactly. And all of those people would have been saved had the regime been a strictly Jaian one. So we have to decide. Its not about religious=bad and...
Because we don't have that luxury. People who believe in certain religions believe that homosexuality is a sin, that abortion is a sin, that women sho...
That depends what you mean by 'morality'. If you're meaning the entire collection of behaviours which any group of people have ever labelled 'moral' t...
Lack of hammers is sure way to identify all the carpenters who cannot build a house. That doesn't mean that houses are caused by hammers. If psychopat...
Absolutely, I'm merely pointing out (in an admittedly slightly facetious manner) that it is very easy to derive a set of seemingly determined behaviou...
Not at all. Imagine a game with three players. The rule is only that each player must only copy the others, no other actions are permitted. The game w...
There are a couple of issues with this; firstly, why would you be so concerned that a method provide principles for strictly judging correct from inco...
That's fair enough, it's kind of what I meant by not wanting to play that game. I'm fairly happy with what I think Wittgenstein actually means by 'rul...
Yes, but that doesn't work if the person describing the world as flat then says "I don't mean 'world' in the sense you're testing, and I don't mean 'f...
I'm not sure. The problem I can see with testing faith based positions against boundaries determined by rational statements of fact (or the limits the...
No, that presumes that the definition of "rule" exists prior to our investigation and we are demonstrating that the thing we have identified belongs t...
I did promise myself that I would not get involved in this kind of nonsense, but I just have to ask, what is this method you're referring to for "expl...
If I may be so crass as to interject a favourite quote here, I think it's apposite to the difficulty some people have with the Philosophical Investiga...
Are you saying that you aren't able to respond when someone asks you to "fetch a red apple"? If not, then you know the rule to that language game to t...
No, nothing directly about Antinatalism. I only meant that, for example, his anthropocentricising of moral value would have prevented there from being...
Are you engaging in a discussion or providing book recommendations? It doesn't matter if David Benetar wrote a whole book about it. Ethicists like Phi...
Yes, I understand that you are making these three assertions. What I was asking is whether you are interested in discussing the assertions themselves ...
But there is no problem here to resolve. The rule only appears vague when we are looking for something 'hidden' behind it. Absent of that, it is not v...
I don't understand what your argument is here. You seem to be saying that from a negative utilitarian perspective, bringing new children into the worl...
I'm afraid you've lost me, so this may be a bit piecemeal, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. Are you saying that it seems to you...
I may be misunderstanding what you're saying here, so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems this (and similar objections you've raised) are of the for...
Fair point. It's an interesting take on it. I'd be inclined to agree insofar as I'm allowed to emphasise your use of the word 'also'. My reading of 55...
Yes, I see what you're doing now. It's a tricky balance to strike I think, so I hope you'll take any future such wide-focus comments I may make as add...
To paraphrase 51(end of) to 54 the way I interpret it; In order to see more clearly we must look close up. (51) But what prevents us from looking clos...
Nice exposition, thank you. One point I disagree with though. You say; Unless I'm mistaken, you seem to be suggesting that 53 (and I suppose 54) are s...
I'm rather fond of Vaughan Williams, and whenever I hear his music I feel good. I wouldn't presume that I therefore know how everyone else is feeling ...
It does if you see the matter being referred to as 'the method of philosophical inquiry', not 'a study of the way people learn rules', but these are j...
I don't think it is possible to analyse the book aphorism by aphorism. Wittgenstein develops thoughts often in three parts. First he will set up what ...
I don't think Wittgenstein is talking about different roles for the chart. He's talking about different roles for whatever it is we see as the paradig...
As I hopefully made clear in my response, I don't see how this is an argument in respect of the text we're discussing. Wittgenstein doesn't claim that...
This is where I disagree. I don't think Wittgenstein is suggesting this at all. I think you may have added a 'simply' into your paraphrasing which Wit...
It's interesting that you've looked at it this way round. You seem to be interpreting the person making the 'slip of the tounge' as the one trying to ...
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