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The acceptance of facts has nothing to do with values, objective or otherwise. It is comment sense or prudential reasoning. But that is not the apolog...

Nietzsche said he is a complete skeptic when it comes to Plato. He actually means something quite different than may appear at first glance. Both Niet...

What is the relation of facts to values and beliefs? It is a fact that I am sitting on my deck typing this on my laptop. I do not hold objective value...

To borrow a phrase from Nietzsche, if I were to attempt continue trying to have a reasonable argument with you would be to be unreasonably reasonable.

And yet: Where does he say this? What does "deserving" mean here? If you say that there is an "unchanging aspect of existence" that is a predicate of ...

It sounds like you suffer from delusions of grandeur and mistake it for mystical insight. It is quite common for professors to receive this kind of "s...

This has been discussed at least since the work of Parmenides. Strictly speaking there is only what is (to eon). Existence is not something that is, w...

That is Genesis 2:25. Look at the context - building a woman for man from himself (bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh) and bringing her to him, cle...

The question is, what do you mean when you say "the concept of non-existence" and the concept's "coming into being". What you mean may be very differe...

What is the concept of non-existence? In what sense does this concept come into being?

Shame? The story says nothing about shame. My reading follows Robert Sacks' "The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis". To be naked i...

And perhaps a degree in philosophy would allow you to see how little you have actually accomplished. If you were the mystic you imagine yourself to be...

Who then are the philosophers? Are the idealist philosophers materialists? Are religious philosophers atheists?

God states why they were banished from the Garden and forbidden to return. It was not because they sinned but because of what they would become if the...

Or matzo balls and bacon. Or circumcised and uncircumcised.

Either do I. My interest is not "religious" but philosophical - the texts are an influential part of our intellectual history. Whether the philosopher...

This is an interesting question. Cain's sin was not a violation of Mosaic Law since this was prior to the Law. Adam and Eve's disobedience was not cal...

It has been a long time (1976-77) since I read Shestov, but I do not recall his work as being "Christian".

The first thing that should be noted is that there is no mention of original sin in the creation story. The first mention of sin occurs in Genesis 4 w...

It is not that there is a rule against it, but that if it is contradictory it cannot be followed, and if it can't be followed it can't count as a rule...

What I take him to be saying is that given the simplicity and familiarity of aspects of things that are most important for us, one does not question t...

We are not told what such theses might be, but we are told what they would not be - they would not be theories of the essence of language. As he says ...

I do not think theory collapses into description. I take the point to be that attempts to establish a theory of language or a theory of meaning, quest...

I think it refers to "the actual use of language" (124) "to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use (116)"

A strong case can be made that Socrates was guilty as charged. We should not assume that the way we might evaluate these issues post Socrates is the w...

If I am 10 years old and my brother is 5 years old I am twice as old as he is. If I am 50 years old and he is 45 years old I am no longer twice as old...

I think he is saying that the purpose is to be found in what is higher, when one sees the world aright from the perspective sub specie aeterni. .

Does Parmenides say this? Either something is or nothing is. Since Parmenides rejects the latter the former must be granted or demonstrated. According...

It was Luke who provided the link. I agree with the distinction between local and global. In terms of language games it is the distinction between a s...

What are we to make of the parenthetical remark? He rejects the idea that meaning is a thing of the same kind as the word; I do not, however, think he...

That was my impression as well, but I wondered about him saying "Cavell's Wittgenstein", "according to Cavell", Cavell's reading", and so on. In the o...

Does Conant agree with Cavell's reading?

In the Apology Socrates professes his ignorance. In the Republic, however, he tells stories of a transcendent reality. In trying to make sense of this...

By forms of life he means our ways of life, what we say and do. An anthropologist might study the forms of life of a people, but here Cavell is pointi...

He is referring to "philosophers" or those on either side of the verification argument who see themselves as outside the world as a whole, as if the w...

What Cavell says about houses turning into flowers in The Claim of Reason appears in a chapter entitled: “Skepticism and the Existence of the World”. ...

Yes, I do think he made a contribution, but the question is about progress. Some remarks from Wittgenstein's Culture and Value:

Daodejing, Chapter 16. Depending on which translation you are using it may say something slightly or significantly different. Tenuousness is an openne...

I do not think of this as philosophical progress. It should not be forgotten that the social/political/theological changes brought about by Plato is d...

Wittgenstein says: He contrasts metaphysical use and everyday use. When he says in 117: he is not referring to any use but everyday use. It is everyda...

The thing I make no assumptions about is what he means when he says "this is here". I do not know why he would say that. The specific meaning refers t...

The context in which it is actually used, as opposed to some metaphysical claim. Just because someone says something that does not mean that is how th...

In my opinion, the only progress that can be made in philosophy is personal progress. The discipline itself changes over time, but does not progress. ...

I am assuming that when Wittgenstein says he is pointing to the object in front of him that he is pointing to the object in front of him. I am assumin...

A correct context would be any context in which it does make sense, that is, any context in which it is actually used. Which is to say, the special or...

If someone points to an object and says "this is here" I assume he means the object he is pointing to is here, but he might be pointing to something e...

Of course it is a circumstance, a circumstance in which the sentence does not make sense. That is why he says to consider circumstances where the sent...

I would say it is not that statements get there meaning from correct context, but that it is only in a correct context, that is to say, particular cir...

The circumstance is him pointing to the object in front of him and saying this is here. I don't know why you would assume that I have assumed any such...

In your example you are pointing at a map but you are pointing to a location on the map: In Wittgenstein's example someone is pointing to the object. ...