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Isaac

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Nope, still not getting where the 'muddle' is. Wittgenstein says that it does not make sense to ask, of our paradigms in language games, whether they ...
December 22, 2018 at 11:52
I don't understand the distinction you're making here, I'd be grateful if you could clarify. Wittgenstein is obviously not suggesting a method of reco...
December 22, 2018 at 11:03
This is how I understand paradigms also. It seems to me, if one "pulls out" the focus a bit to look at the whole section, the theme is consistently th...
December 22, 2018 at 06:58
Yes, that's certainly how I understand it. I think that in the same way one can take "the lump of metal" and say that it does not always play that rol...
December 21, 2018 at 09:59
OK, but in the context of what we've just discussed about Wittgenstein's reference to the many ways in which we check our use against samples, what is...
December 21, 2018 at 09:33
Thanks for the clarification, so no one's trying to to say that one can 'never' say that the Standard Metre is or is not 1m long, only that such a sta...
December 21, 2018 at 09:14
I've just read through this thread with interest. I've found a number of points I'd like to clarify with their respective authors, but I think it woul...
December 21, 2018 at 07:32