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I don't know Quine so can't comment on the comparison. 613 is interesting. First, he says he is justified in knowing that the water will boil. If it d...

The top part of the lower section of Plato's divided line is pistis. The Greek term can be translated as belief, trust, persuasion, confidence, and as...

I don't agree.

Knowledge claims are epistemological. Justification does not mark a distinction between epistemological and non-epistemological knowledge claims. I wa...

While a philosopher's epistemological considerations may involve sophisticated language games knowing and doubting need not. Perhaps not. You stated t...

I do not think Wittgenstein regards knowing and doubting as sophisticated language games. Both knowing and doubting in their nascent forms are primiti...

Noticing or seeing aspects is an aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophy that often goes unnoticed. This is related to "concepts of experience". He goes o...

The problem is, it makes philosophy impersonal. Some think this is as it should be, but I don't think Wittgenstein is one of them. In a letter to Rush...

In the preface to the PI Wittgenstein says: So, yes. He is at the same time criticizing himself.

When does one step outside of philosophy into psychology? What in earlier editions of the PI was called "Part II" is in the revised 4th edition called...

Wittgenstein quotes Augustine: “quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio”. (PI 89) "What, then, is time?...

Isn't this an example of "totalizing"? Certainty and the crystalline purity of logic are two different but related things. It is our understanding (Ve...

Yes. This means, in part, that some things that had previously functioned as hinges no longer do, and some that now function as hinges may in time no ...

Does the irony of all this escape you? Wittgenstein is not to blame for your asshole tendencies. Across multiple threads I have attempted to discuss W...

If it is not then it will be from time to time subject to doubt. What had held fast as a hinge no longer does and will no longer be regarded as true.

. A part is not the whole. I think you know this. In any case, this put him at odds with his "social circle". The contention is that they don't. When ...

Isn't the proposition that the earth revolves around the sun one of the basic beliefs that inform our discussions of justification and truth (our epis...

Those are the people he is addressing, the people he is engaged with. Right. Unlike the facts of natural science. In the Tractatus Wittgenstein distin...

The same point has been made about terms such as reason, from the Latin ratio. It is a comparison of one thing to another. If the Good is singular the...

Yes. Good point. Within the realm of opinion there are some that are better to hold than others. Some desires and goals that are higher than others.

I don't know if you miss the point or are just being argumentative. If a term is used in more than one way then if we are to understand an author we m...

There have now been several generations of Wittgenstein scholars and several different ways in which he has been read and understood. In addition, he ...

The other day, in one of these threads, I had a disagreement with @"Leontiskos" about an author's responsibility for how they might be misunderstood. ...

Propositions, as he uses the term, are about the facts of the world, the facts of natural science. They are either true or false. If something cannot ...

The concept of forms of life extends beyond language. That is the point.

Answers to what questions?

For example, questions about God, questions about the good and beauty, It is not a matter of what language needing protection from but of what is off ...

The "belief" that I have hands does not arise from an inherited background but from the activities of using our hands. Sticking them in my mouth, gras...

At the risk of raising the ire of Schopenhauer1 I will once again quote Wittgenstein: (Culture and Value)

One aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophy was a response to prevailing assumptions, but there is more to the saying/showing distinction. In the Tractatu...

His writings are not monologues. There is often if not always an interlocutor, even when the interlocutor is silent. Authority? The fact is that many ...

In the Republic Socrates presents an inspiring image of dialectic: (511b) We are, however, never free from hypotheses. We remain in the realm of opini...

I can think of none better than Socrates own 'midwife': (Theaetetus 150b-e)

Good point. Aporia, however, is not simply the end point. Aporia can compel us to go back and rethink things and to come regard them differently.

Stupefying someone with a bunch of questions to show we should question our assumptions is a beginning… In some cases one must first become aware that...

I might have if I knew how to quire.

Yes! That has been my experience as well.

Going by what you said, it is not. Maieutics is not a matter of honing a set of skills through exercise. Maieutics is a matter of inquiry not solving ...

It is in the title - Wittgenstein is a Socratic philosopher. Your argument? A couple of misguided and unsubstantiated claims is not an argument. If me...

I have not addressed the extent to which they differ from other philosophers. If by mental floss you mean maieutics, then it is an essential part of w...

Right. That is why I said: I don't know what is implied by "JUST". Dialectical thinking takes as its starting point substantial positions. I do not kn...

I am using Joe Sachs. From his introduction For convenience I sometimes copy and paste from the online translation from Perseus: Those opinions, as he...

(982a 20) It should be noted that he does not simply say that this is what wisdom is, but "of these" that is,the accepted opinions about wisdom. We mi...

I think in the case of Socrates there is a great deal more to it. It is not enough to acknowledge that you are ignorant. Human wisdom means to know ho...

I cannot say whether or not he assumed that there are supernatural beings, but it is clear not only that many believe and others speak and write about...

I don't. I think his reasoning is dialectical and aporetic. The attentive reader is not led to conclusions but to questions and problems without answe...

To what extent? I do not think that Plato, for example, is responsible for the varied and contradictory ways is which he has been read over the centur...

If the intent is to understand an author, then we should not impose rules and expectations on how they are to be read. Different authors write differe...

In my opinion he should not. An author does not maintain control over how his words are understood or used by others. In order to counteract this we c...

Is the life of contemplation one that is suitable or even desirable for all men? However attractive this might appear to be to would be philosophers, ...