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Yes, I read the article. The problem, as I see it, is the move from the insufficiency of current explanations to the positing some form of fundamental...

That is my point. We do not understand and so arguments that claim that consciousness cannot be understood in physical terms are unconvincing. We cann...

That may be true if one has a very narrow view of materialism. Our understanding of what the "stuff" that the universe is made of has changed. That is...

I take schopenhauer1's point to be that the limits of Wittgenstein's philosophical inquiry should not mark the limits of philosophy. That there are qu...

A few quotes from Being and Time I.5 section 34: Dasein and discourse: Language Discourse is the articulation of intelligibility. (161) The attuned in...

Here are some things informed physicalists acknowledge we do not yet understand: Dark matter. Dark energy. Quantum gravity. String theory. Multiverse....

From the article: It seems to me that if the authors took this seriously they would not argue about whether there is more than physical reality becaus...

There are probably others here more competent to give you an answer about this. Or, I am sure that a search will yield results.

You are not negating a proposition. It is not a proposition. A shape which is both circle and square does not represent a possible situation in logica...

But that would not be a picture of the facts. Dogs are not cats and chairs are not tables. It is not the case that a dog is on the chair. Do you mean:...

The term theater comes from the Greek meaning to see or watch. (A musician on a discussion board I read occasionally used to complain when someone wou...

I am not sure what you are referring to. Homer's epic poems are not "theatre". As was I. As the note on poiêsis indicates, however, Aristotle's use of...

Cat and table do not name simple objects. The names are accidental. The signs are accidental. We might say: Die Katze sitzt auf dem Tisch. Putting a c...

From the Benardete and Davis translation: As to the question of the meaning of the term translated as poetry, this is a footnote from the Benardete an...

Objects do not combine to form propositions, words do. Words are a combination of simple names but again Wittgenstein never names them. 3.334 The rule...

[reply="EricH;296021" Interesting. I recall some heated arguments between followers of Chomsky and followers of Wittgenstein.

That there are simple objects he takes to be evident, a priori. Just what those objects are, however, he never says. It is the configuration of object...

One that some who are most adamant that they are not in a cage are trapped in is the result of what psychologist call the Dunning-Kruger effect. Tell ...

I cannot comment without knowing whether the translation and even the Greek use of the terms is problematic, and, the context. The chorus is an intere...

From 2019's discussion of Oskari Kuusela: And: One is on the very brink of a misunderstand if he thinks that what we were talking about in logic were ...

Any discussion of Aristotle Poetics should keep in mind the "old quarrel between philosophy and poetry (Republic 607). Plato frames the issue: Aristot...

Okay, then don't read it again. I would suggest that you look more carefully at what Wittgenstein actually says about logic, subliming logic, logic an...

Some have perhaps made too much of this and others too little:

Wittgenstein glad you could join us! I thought you were dead. Now you can settle all our disputes.

Yes, perhaps you are lying about your age. You do us a service but yourself a disservice by calling your own veracity into question. Keep digging Fran...

Yes Frank. I am aware of your chronological age.

Frank you really are a child! Repeating the same thing over and over again, putting it in ALL CAPS, throwing tantrums and stomping your feet, none of ...

Frank, it is because I actually have an interest in philosophical discussion that I am not going to sink to your level. You have dug yourself into a h...

I assume you fail to see the irony! Believing (or guessing) that repeating the same thing and petulantly crying "You are pathetic" is a suitable examp...

Then I suggest you read it again, carefully , without your assumptions about what logic must be.

No, you argued that it is a mistaken view. I don't know if anyone but you found it persuasive. Your basic misunderstanding in this post is based on yo...

The most insidious cage in the one that we do not even suspect we are in.

One might respond by eschewing all arguments for the existence of God. If God is beyond the limits of our understanding then we cannot even know what ...

Unfortunately, christine has not been back since the day she posted this, so it is not possible to discuss what is at issue for her. Instead we find o...

Grammar is a logical order. It is not derived from language, it is integral to it. There can be no language that is not a logical language. ... How ca...

There are two things that should be kept in the forefront of one's mind: Nietzsche's irony and his esoteric writing style. By esoteric I do not mean s...

Okay. It is sometimes difficult to tell whether someone thinks that what is being said is roughly the same thing in two different ways. Maybe. One iss...

As I understand it, Wittgenstein is not claiming that there is a universal grammar, but that any grammar must make sense. One might imagine a language...

How do we reconcile logical necessity with his remark that the rules of grammar are arbitrary? Language has no single purpose, but it could not serve ...

No Frank, it is not that we cannot but that we do not artificially designate certain words as "bad" and others as "good. We do not each get to decide ...

You have a misguided concept of how language actually works. It is intimately tied to norms, practices, and customs. We do not artificially or arbitra...

Exactly! A fine demonstrate of meaning deafness.

Just as there are people who are tone deaf there are those who are meaning deaf. It can be insidious, especially when one is unaware of it. One may no...

'It'?

It is just this tendency to posit a hidden world behind the world that Wittgenstein rejects. How does one peak behind the curtain? By imagining that t...

Wittgenstein clearly rejects modern or radical skepticism, but his attitude and practice is in line with Socratic zetetic skepticism, that is to say, ...

"Listen to this (hour long) lecture" is not a satisfactory response. The title of the thread you started is: "Wittgenstein's Relation to Science and O...

I find Wittgenstein's examples of such irregularities interesting because he does not claim that such improbable things are impossible. From On Certai...

I am having a hard time deciphering this. As I said in my initial post, I am not familiar with Speculative Realism. If you explained it, I missed it. ...

The facts that concern the woodworker may overlap in some cases with the facts that concern someone doing materials science, but the woodworker's main...