This refers back to the Tractatus. There he claimed that on the propositions of science which picture or represent the facts of the world could be tho...
He's not. He is not arguing that it is possible to eliminate doubt but that the role of certainty in our lives and language is not the certainty that ...
This is a continuation of the problem he addresses in 81: We do not need or employ a calculus according to definite rules in order to use language. We...
Would you like freedom fries with this? PC is not just a left wing abuse. See the Disinvitation Database compiled by the Foundation of Individual Righ...
It is not that we choose a logic, as if it is out there existing on its own. The rules of a language game, like the rules of other games, is determine...
The first thing you should do is send the landlord a certified letter listing the problems, how long it has been going on for, what he has done to try...
In the Tractatus Wittgenstein replaces Kant's transcendental conditions of the possibility of phenomena, that is, mental representation, with the tran...
I could but what would be the point? Despite your talk of uncertainly you seem certain that you have understood Wittgenstein, and that his epistemolog...
The definition of the term places it in the realm of the divine, although there seems to be no consensus as to exactly where. For more see Liddell and...
What I was trying to get at is that our answers should not preclude further inquiry. Socrates often uses the example of the craftsmen, because they do...
I think it is no longer worth my time and effort trying to help you see more than your myopic vision allows. It is one thing to discuss the texts but ...
That is how we use the term. The demand that it must mean more prohibits its use. ? The rules of grammar according to W. are arbitrary. That depends o...
The ability to doubt is not a reason to doubt. The kind of certainty Wittgenstein appeals to in On Certainty is not indubitable, necessary, or infalli...
The term skeptic comes from the Greek meaning inquiry and doubt. Eventually doubt came to overshadow inquiry, to the extent that it was doubted that i...
Physician heal thyself. If this is not tongue in cheek what makes you think that you are qualified to guide others on the right path? Are you sure tha...
The act is a fact. Part of the problem is that murder is defined as wrongful killing, but if it were an act that took place in war or in self-defense ...
What should we make of the parenthetical remark in §84? The general point seems to be that even though it is possible to imagine a doubt whether an ab...
I don't know the writings of any of them well enough to say. From what I have read of Kierkegaard I think his faith may be a form of transcendence. Ga...
Despite your claims to the contrary, what you say betrays a great deal of emotional attachment - to wealth, to meeting interesting people, to connecti...
But the question has to do with the abyss the tight rope walker must walk over. That is part of science, but I don't think relativity or quantum mecha...
In an earlier post you said: This sounds like Heidegger. Where does Nietzsche say this? Although Nietzsche focuses primarily on the Western tradition,...
The man on the tightrope has rejected what was but has not reached the other side. The no to what was without a yes to what he will become creates an ...
If by saying it is not simply the absence of values you mean that having any values, whatever they may be, is sufficient to overcome nihilism, then I ...
I agree. I said: But I was responding to the question in the OP: Assuming that Nietzsche is following a rule we might not know what that rule is simpl...
The problem of a language that is private is that it cannot convey meaning. There must be some logic or grammar for the usage of words. Language is a ...
When Zarathustra enters the town he asks : All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide,...
It is not like sightseeing. It is not a once and done experience. It is an attempt to put into words what cannot be put into words. When he says "ulti...
Do you mean ethics in the sense of rules or standards of proper conduct? If so, Wittgenstein says nothing about this. The closest he gets in the comme...
He has made it clear that ethics is not about propositions and so the transcendence of propositions is not the transcendence of ethics. It is only whe...
In support of my last post regarding the meaning of transcendental as the condition of possibility, from the Notebooks: “Ethics does not treat of the ...
So in other words you don't know what it means and think you can define it in any way you see fit. Is this an example of your “improvising”? It is not...
And yet at the penultimate rung of the latter at 6.421 he says that ethics is transcendental. How do you explain this? What one sees when the world is...
I am not surprised that this is hard to find in textbooks, but there are ample secondary sources that support this view. This was not always the case ...
In case anyone else is confused, perhaps this letter from Wittgenstein to Ludwig von Ficker will help. In it he makes clear not only that he is certai...
The first thing that should be pointed out is that in the dialogue Euthyphro the question is what is piety (?? ?????). The second is that the question...
It has. This is the crux of the matter. Thank you. That is correct. This is a basic Tractarian distinction. One that I have repeatedly pointed to only...
Once again you miss the point. I cannot show you what the mystical is, you have to experience it for yourself. This is all part of the distinction bet...
We have been over this. Experiential. A proposition does not tell me if I am happy or in pain. It would not be the everyday experience of the unhappy ...
No propositional truths. He provides no such explanation, and if he did wouldn't he have to discuss it, that is, talk about value judgments? You miss ...
The answer is: Ethics has nothing to do with truth-functions, for propositions can express nothing higher. Wittgenstein says: 5.641 Thus there really ...
The numbering system in the Tractatus is not ornamental. The remark about the world of the happy man is not some offhand remark unrelated to the state...
You translated what into the question of whether the will is fundamental to all ethical theories? It should be clear that Wittgenstein did not have an...
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