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Is this possible? Can there be a name of a color for which no sample exists? How can we know what color is being named without a sample that is part o...

Your interest seems to be the development of rhetorical skills. Philosophy, as I understand it, involves the radical questioning of one’s beliefs, not...

Is this possible? Can there be a name of a color for which no sample exists? How can we know what color is being named without a sample that is part o...

A color sample is a means of representation (§50). It is a bearer of the name. It shows the meaning of the name. (§40) It serves as a paradigm. (§55) ...

What I said was that It is not the thing that is red that is named red, a wagon or a barn, for example, but red names the color of the wagon or barn. ...

I don’t see that as paradoxical. As I understand it, what he is rejecting is the idea of “an element of reality”. Red refers to a color, that is how w...

The discussion of the problem saying “X exists” where ‘X’ is a name needs to be seen in context: The issue is both linguistic and ontological. Names a...

Socrates called himself a physician of the soul. The first psychologist?

I am not sure I understand your question. I don’t think that either depiction is intended to be an accurate depiction of actual souls. If this is righ...

“In reality, however, we quite readily say that a particular colour exists; and that is as much as to say that something exists that has that colour. ...

I am questioning whether Plato is able to "transcend" that and has some insight into "what's really going on." Using the analogy of the cave, he is a ...

That is the challenge as it is put to him, but how well did it work out for Socrates? Is it only in the just city that does not exist anywhere that ju...

I am in agreement with you except that I do not think Plato is claiming that he, or more precisely his Socrates since Plato is never speaks in the dia...

With regard to zero, I do not know what Heidegger actually said or what they context was, but he may be referring to the Greek concept of aristmos. Ja...

I don’t see how this shows that the premise of the Republic is how to not be overwhelmed by bad things. Right. The way he poses the problem is interes...

If you do not know what greige is then saying "the color greige" tells you that it is a color. In this case greige tells you nothing at all, it is the...

The name is, in the example I used, “greige”. If you forget which color greige is the name of you do not necessarily forget the color. You may remembe...

What support do you have for that? The premise as stated is to defend justice against the argument put forward by Thrasymachus that whatever is benefi...

Just to be clear, it was not the experience of suffering harm but of doing harm! As in, it takes one to know one. I do agree with your point though.

I take a very different view of what Plato was up to. This is, however, not an idiosyncratic view. There are well regarded scholars whose work led me ...

With regard to Plato I would suggest that just as the “city in speech” is not an existing city or a city we would want to live in, the soul, which is ...

He starts the quoted phrase by saying: “When we forget which colour this is the name of …”. What is not remembered is what the color “greige” means, t...

That may be, but doesn’t that suggest that quale is not necessary for knowledge?

Right, if there were no sample that could be used as a paradigm then there is no way to settle whether one remembers the color correctly. It is possib...

§54 is about the different functions or ways in which a rule is used in a game. In each case there is no confusion as to what rule is to be followed. ...

Two different senses in which one can follow a rule. The first means to understand what the rule is. You have indicated that you can follow the rule t...

Following a rule does not mean that one must follow it, but rather that one knows how to follow it. There may be cases where we cannot tell whether or...

If you fetch a red apple whenever you are asked to then you know the rule. It is as simple as that. Fetching the apple is sufficient. What more do you...

That was my first reaction as well, but after doing a search for “truth in chess” I found several articles, many of which also discuss beauty. The tru...

From an article in the December 26th issue of The New York Times about Alpha Zero: … a machine-learning algorithm that had mastered not only chess but...

First, I would like to compliment the participants for their courteous and respectful behavior. As has been mentioned, Wittgenstein’s discussion shoul...