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Use comes first. Rules are established by use. The rules maintain that use, that is, they determine the common use, how you or I will use that word ac...

What is not comprehended or understand is the meaning. I would say that one does not comprehend the meaning mistakenly, I would say one does not compr...

How would you explain 125: without intention? How do we make sense of not meaning it like that if there is no intended meaning? When I do not understa...

Your inference is not correct. The rules for use is not the same as the actual use. There will other opportunities to look at what W. says about the r...

Perhaps I have not understood your meaning properly. Perhaps it was not what you intended to say.

Dear Mrs Malaprop, I am writing to you to let you know that I like your example of wrong usage and right meaning.

Yes, as Alice was told: say what you mean or mean what you say. If you do not use words as they are commonly used that means you will have a hard time...

But that is not what I claim. It is not a question of mind or the problem of a private language. When I say something I mean something by what I say. ...

Meaning is not predicated on any one thing, but in some cases it is predicated in part on intention. In a previous post you said: Who or what determin...

The one about the term having different meanings? There were different schools of hedonism and I think these philosophers had some very interesting an...

There is no current agreement. There was no agreement then. I am aware that when someone speaks of hedonism he might mean something different than som...

I have decided not to push ahead for that reason. Improper meaning would not be the absence of meaning but a meaning that was not what was meant:

It can be physical or emotional or intellectual pain and troubles, a lack of tranquility or equanimity. Whether or not you live a hedonistic life has ...

I will hold off saying more about §199 for now. I mean the activity. To practice is to do. In this case, to play. What is at issue is your claim: It i...

The term hedonism has no single meaning. What many today think of as hedonism is not what the early proponents of hedonism such as Aristippus of Cyren...

From page 34 of this discussion: What he means by the pneumatic conception of thinking? Pneuma means breath, and by extension, soul, life, spirit (spi...

The question of practice comes from my comment: My example of following was intended to get at the distinction between following along and following a...

An insightful, succinct, overview. One could write a book on several different things he touched on.

I have not read this work but I have read both editors and can strongly recommend them: http://the-eye.eu/public/WorldTracker.org/Sociology/Philosophy...

I really can't say. I do not know the author or anything other than the title of the book and one positive review. If you like to collect books that's...

You set the adversarial tone several months ago. Kongzi (Confucius) said: You have been struggling to find where my interpretation goes wrong and/or w...

Wittgenstein rejects that assumption. If you reach the end of the Tractatus and still hold to that assumption then you have not understood the text. I...

That may be your assumption but it is not an assumption that informs any part of the Tractatus. It is not simply lacking form but lacking logical form...

Suppose I ask: "What are they doing?" and you answer "Following the rule". "What is the rule?" "What they are doing". If I see a group of people walki...

All propositions are factual propositions. There are no ethical propositions. Once again: There is only one kind of proposition. Elementary propositio...

They are alike in that neither can be represented, yet you want to keep talking about them.

Extend this to the whole realm of the ethical and maybe then you will catch on and the misguided questioning will end.

And I did not mean to imply that you did. It is a common misconception though, so I wanted to address it. I also used it as an opportunity to continue...

I agree, but as with much of Wittgenstein, this is one aspect of a larger issue. Note, for example: It seems problematic to say that one knows somethi...

The form of all propositions is the same. The form of all relations between objects is the same. Just because we say things about both houses and cows...

And if black and white are both colors then black and white are the same.

I would say more generally that Wittgenstein was motivated to think. This includes but is not limited to problem solving. The solving of philosophical...

The comparison is a mode of representation - we see the thing in relation to what we are comparing it to. But this is not "the perception of a highly ...

If that was the theme of his philosophy then why did he continue? Did he fail to resolve the problems for himself? Was his primary theme to help other...

If they are not part of your experience then they are not things you know via experience. You can call it my own sermon if you like, but they are all ...

Not the skeptical ones, which include Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein ... Basically, philosophers have never written for Joe. Today we...

Because the framing of the questions where done by philosophers and the solutions led to the philosopher.

You are right, but you cited unenlightened saying: "grammar is extracted by pedants from pre-existing communication. It starts as description and beco...

What is his idea of grammar?

Any of the innumerable things the anthropologist observes the people doing that she does not understand the reason for or purpose of. Why does everyon...

Certainly not philosophers concerned with hermeneutics and the interpretation of texts.There is a extensive and active literature on these issues.

That might be the case when someone who is unfamiliar with the larger activity comes across the rule, an anthropologist, for example, studying a tribe...

Spinoza's formulation is "God or Nature", that is, God = Nature. Some are of the opinion that he used the term God as an expedient or subterfuge. One ...

There is a connection here with 90: The possibility of new discoveries and inventions is the possibility of new phenomena. An abuse of language stands...

"You" in this case meant me and "someone" is Sluga. If one understands the rules then one knows what to do, but a set of rules is meaningless if one d...

Since we cannot explain the "Redness thing" we cannot determine whether mental phenomena are categorically different, except in the sense that one can...

We should not assume that these stories were intended to be historical records. The practice of chreia, found in compositional textbooks used to teach...

Yes. We went over this. Wittgenstein was deeply concerned with religious and moral matters. But here you are quoting me regarding things known that ca...

Thanks Luke. Always nice to see that someone agrees with you. With regard to connections, I think there is a connection between what Wittgenstein says...

You are trying to put into words what Wittgenstein says cannot.