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I have no objection to you starting it.

So, there is justice in the world after all: Trump is unable to put his money where is mouth is. He pretends to be famously wealthy , but does not hav...

My apologies. I stand corrected. My attention was drawn elsewhere and I forgot to return to this. You said: While it is true that they make up the sub...

Let's take a step back: To which I asked again: The simple answer is no, she does not. To claim that language demands it is not to identify one. With ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12008/shaken-to-the-chora/p1

First off, what you referred to was not about simple objects: Second, come on Banno! This is basic stuff. We have been through this before, if not in ...

Where do you think I failed to differentiate them?

Did I say or imply otherwise? Why bring this up? Right, but the epistemological problem and the problem of what elementary objects are are two differe...

In the passage where Anscombe quotes Wittgenstein he does not say that what objects are is irrelevant or a matter of psychology. He is responding to R...

Does Anscombe mention a single simple object? The claim that language demands it is not the same as actually identifying either a simple object or a s...

As Wittgenstein said: (CV 65) Perhaps. I thought we understood this in the same way but your next post indicates that we don't. To simplify this a bit...

"The Earth has six moons" is a state of affairs. It tells us what is the case, but only if it is true. (2.06) If what is real is what is the case then...

This begs the question of what stands as a completely analysed proposition. What functions as a name? What determines a simple thing is that which yie...

The problem arises when we move from the logical form and structure of the world to its content. When we move from a form to content. When we treat Tr...

When he says that is that it is only by the configuration of objects that material are produced, he does not distinguish between the production of mat...

But the picture might be true or false. This cannot be determined by the proposition. The proposition might be a false picture of reality. How do you ...

I have recently come to the opposite conclusion as can be seen in my post above and subsequent exchange with @"013zen". Wittgenstein cannot mention a ...

It certainly is! But also quite serious.

Diogenes Laertius says: but fails to provide a reference. In the same paragraph he mentions Xenophon's Symposium but I was unable to find it there. In...

I would not say I did a full study, but I did take a course, mostly centered around Guthrie's "Socrates". That was a long time ago. At the time I thou...

Where does he say this? It is the most famous thing he never proclaimed. If you search the dialogues you will find that what he did say is quite diffe...

What is at issue is the relationship between Wittgenstein's indivisible propositional 'objects' and the objects we find in the world. The question of ...

Sorry, you lost me. The passage you quoted: Might seem to support that there are, independent of us, simple objects that combine to make the physical ...

If the ball is an arrangement of objects then it is composite. Objects cannot be composite. (2.021)

Wittgenstein's objects are not physical objects, they are analytical. In the Notebooks he says: He asks: And in response: But: (NB 17.6.15) Whether th...

Thanks for the link. A few points of contention: I think Wittgenstein's view of solipsism differs significantly from that of Schopenhauer. This differ...

I don't think so. We can know the facts of the world independent of us. He does not make a distinction between phenomena and noumena in the Notebooks ...

Although they both used the metaphor of the ladder they are talking about different things. Schopenhauer traces the sense of wonder back to Plato and ...

What does this mean? It is often repeated, but how close does the Tractatus map to the writings of Schopenhauer? A few major points where they seem to...

This would be a problem if the government was in charge, but it's not. Without a transcript I can only address this in general terms. Did one of the p...

I decided not to get into the question of what he meant by "pure realism".

I do not think it is a question of whether financial pressure should be placed on the outlet. It is, rather, that readers, listeners, and viewers turn...

As usual, in your compulsive attempt to defend Trump you have lost track of the argument. Go back to the beginning. The objection in the concurrence i...

I think I might like pineapple. I usually make 2 or 3 pizzas, so maybe I will! I don't think I would like a pizza with the sweet red stuff called BBQ ...

I would try pineapple but my wife says no. I do a few variations on white. With ricotta or without. I do not recall doing barbecue. The tikka masala s...

Yes, I am. I said this several times. They were there and heard and participated in all the arguments. You were't and you didn't. But with your fine l...

The majority said: Those specific procedures do not exist. Without such procedures Congress could be in 100% agreement that a candidate is guilty of i...

Right. There was one issue. It was decided unanimously that eligibility is a federal rather than state matter. The court should have stopped there. It...

There are two issues. You ignore the second. Although the petition raised a single question, that is, the first issue, the court's main opinion did no...

Solipsism and Skepticism Solipsism: The I alone. Solus - alone Ipse - self. The Tractatus begins: (1) In order to determine if the world is limited we...

As expected, your spin veers off from the truth. What they determined is that this is not a matter to be decided at the state level. However: (bold ad...

What started years ago as a hobby eventually became a requirement. Bread - french, focaccia, ciabatta, semolina, sourdough, cinnamon, cranberry walnut...

As expressed in the Declaration of Independence: the pursuit of happiness. But this does not mean, do whatever you think makes you happy. In his recen...

I am in agreement with Wittgenstein when he says: . Just as shoes that are too tight make it difficult to walk, the language used by philosophers make...

You cut the story short: The word ‘how’ can also be translated ‘where’. In other words, he knows it relative to his own perspective, from a bridge abo...

(6.36) Why can't this be said? Of course he can say the words, he just did, but: (5.1361) (6.37) (6.32) The form is the method used to describe the wo...

I agree that they are inscrutable and propositionally useless, but Wittgenstein's argument is about the possibility of propositions. Just as elementar...

Well, to begin we would have to identify the objects.Wittgenstein does not do this. We do not even know what these objects are let alone knowing inter...

l'chaim.

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