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Yes. Here is 242: I will say a bit more about 242, but first: Wittgenstein used the term "scaffolding" in the Tractatus to refer to what underlies bot...

First there are constraints on the woodworker. The properties of the wood, the tools, the adhesives, the fasteners. There is also the woodworker's lan...

In On Certainty Wittgenstein quotes Goethe: We are social animals. The group and its activities comes first.

schopenhauer1 introduced Kant into the discussion. I have no interest in justifying his position. I think the noumenal-phenomenal distinction is probl...

. You miss the point (or perhaps I do). The patterns are phenomenal or in some cases extrapolated from what can be observed. If the patterns were noum...

The point I was addressing is the noumenal-phenomenal distinction, the distinction between things as they are in themselves and things as they are for...

I do not have any idea how you got from anything I said that he takes for us for granted. The relationship between us and language is that language is...

If I remember correctly, (it has been twenty years), Cavell sees in Wittgenstein's method of examples, something akin to Pyrrhonian skepticism. It is ...

As he says in the first quote above: When it becomes evident that our conceptual framework excludes important facts then we change the framework. Reco...

I did not say anything about a principle. I do not recall anywhere where he discusses the distinction. If you can cite where he does then perhaps we c...

This is exactly the kind of answer Socrates rejects in response to his "what is" questions. He does not want examples of justice, for example, but wha...

The point is, he is not making the distinction between "things as they are", and "as they are for us" nor investigating that distinction.

I cannot speak to Speculative Realism. I am not familiar with it. But I think the following from Wittgenstein's Zettel addresses some of your concerns...

Your claim was not that one believes what he claims to believe but that the belief is true or false. It is true that I believe those things but that d...

"I believe in freedom, justice, and equality." Is that proposition true or false? I don't believe it, I know it. I know how to calculate and I've done...

Is the one example of a hinge proposition given - 12x12=144, a belief? Isn't that proposition true whether one believes it or not? If it is true (or f...

In that case why doesn't he just call them beliefs?

From an earlier post: As I understand it, according to OC, a hinge proposition is one, as the name suggests, on which other propositions turn.

I edited my post soon after posting it: The age of the earth informs geology, evolution, astronomy, and so on. I know that here is a hand serves no su...

I think he relishes the fight. His mentor, after all, was Roy Cohn. Right and wrong don't matter. It's win or lose.

Although it is extremely unlikely that Trump read the report, what we are seeing is not a reflection of his ignorance of its content, but the lies he ...

Laughter is no substitute for evidence and philosophical argument. Again, what hangs and pivots on Moore's claim that he knows he has hands? The whole...

I have seen some commentators who treat them as such, but I have found nothing in On Certainty or other texts of Wittgenstein's that make that identif...

Does Wittgenstein give any specific examples of hinge propositions? When he says: we should not overlook "in deed". I take this to mean, in practice. ...

On this we disagree. I do not think belief enters into the picture unless someone asks whether I believe that what is see in front of me is a toothbru...

A proposition may express a belief but it is not a belief. Are you claiming that there is a picking up a cup of coffee state of mind or the act of bru...

So you have said, but where does W. say this? That may be true in some cases but I do not see where W. says that all hinge propositions are like this....

How can a proposition be prelinguistic or nonlinguistic? A proposition is by definition linguistic. Consider the following: This is interesting for tw...

Does Wittgenstein claim that there are bedrock beliefs? In PI he says: The context is justification for following a rule. As I understand it, accordin...

I think the following from Zettel speaks to this:

It would help if you provided the original claim in context, but despite the request to do so early on, you have not, unfortunately, done so. And so, ...

Come on now, when you or Clark say: that makes facts contingent upon belief. You may want to revise his/your claim but either make it clear that you a...

What is it that you contend and what is it that Clark contends? Is your OP a statement in his words or yours? Is the claim that facts ought to be beli...

What cannot exist does not exist.

The problem, as I see it, is that we cannot disentangle ontology and epistemology. All ontological claims are grounded in some particular epistemology...

But that is not what he says. Or perhaps it is not what he actually says but what you say he says. In either case, the statement is: If a necessary pa...

Right, but to be more precise, the claim is not simply that it is a fact that there are values but a fact that there are objective values. I have aske...

You are equivocating. It is not, according to Clark, that what the facts are that is determined by beliefs but rather that they are at all is determin...

The premise of the argument is that if there no objective values there would be no facts. The claim is that without the former there cannot be the lat...

You have not understood the problem of Moore's paradox. It is not axiological but logical. That is not simply my view. If you think this is not correc...

The point is, once again, that it has nothing to do with "objective values" and what one "ought to believe". The problem is not axiological but logica...

See "Moore's Paradox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_paradox It is not a matter of value, that is, what one ought to believe, but of logical...

At least your "argument" is getting briefer.

You have moved further and further away from philosophical engagement. It's that simple. It should be noted that you have not provided anything that o...

That is not the point. You said: It it not a matter of whether I or anyone else is being forced to be a Christian. It is a question about whether his ...

AJJ, what you are ignoring is that this is nothing more than Christian apologetics. What is most problematic is not the claim that we ought to believe...

Right, I am referring here to Plato's depiction of Socrates, "made young and beautiful" (Second Letter). The Socrates depicted in the other two main s...

I do not know the extent of Trump's involvement. What is clear is that he believes that problems can and should be resolved by a show of force. This i...

A necessary condition for the just city is the “noble lie”. Given that the city is the soul writ large, a necessary condition for the just soul is the...

The stable genius is at best of average intelligence but he has a knack for promoting his own self-interests. To this end he has aligned himself with ...