The point of the search was to show that there is no consensus as to what a hinge is. Where did I say that hinges are restricted only to scientific in...
I suggest you take a look at the scholarly literature. The claims made about hinges are varied and interpretations mutually exclusive. What your regar...
One again, Wittgenstein identifies things that are indubitable but are not hinges. The importance of some things not being doubted has a long history ...
Science is not only about certain activities such as testing. Science forms a body of knowledge. It is from within that body of knowledge that the log...
In the e-copy I am using it is not italicized, but even if it were what difference does it make? I left it out because it is not relevant to the point...
Yes. I agree. Is it a hinge or "? It is in certain respects like a hinge but it is not a hinge. That is because it is personal. If it turns out that n...
Our system is inextricably scientific. The child is not doing a scientific investigation. It begins to believe a whole system of propositions.(141) It...
I have been getting pushback on he claim that hinges have their place in our scientific investigations. Our scientific investigations form a system. I...
You should follow your own advice. Look at what he says and maybe you will see. But only if you get the picture you have in mind out of your view: Wha...
It there are things that are hinges and things that are not then there must be distinguishing characteristics. This is not to say that all things that...
Wittgenstein says it is indubitable because: (657) But again, he says that this is not a hinge. See above. What is the hinge at 472? Wittgenstein says...
Well I am glad to see that you are attempting to give textual support, but unfortunately it fails from the get go. He is clear that "I am called L. W....
It is a description and the only one that he provides. That is not to say that there are other things that might count as a description but you argue ...
How is look and see a hinge? It is a good policy to follow but even under Sam's description it is not a hinge. The policy may hold fast but it tells u...
Yes, I discussed this above. He says the mathematical propositions is a hinge but one cannot say that about the proposition "I am called ...". It bein...
What other classes of investigation is he considering with regard to hinges? I selected the three parts that explicitly refer to hinges. This was not ...
I am glad that you challenged my claim, but just calling bullshit is not to give textual support. Please provide some of the varied examples of hinges...
He says that both mathematical hinges and "I am called ..." are incontrovertible (657) but you cannot say of the latter that it is an unmovable hinge....
At the risk of repeating myself I will repeat what Wittgenstein actually says about hinges: They are propositions that belong to our scientific invest...
Wittgenstein's complaints against scientism often hold up, but his criticisms of science often do not. He does not, for example, regard the question "...
I agree. The unthinking reflex reaction is "meaning is use", But meaning does not always mean use. To say that my life has meaning is not to say that ...
Nice. Wittgenstein said: (Culture and Value) Among the many questions this raises is whether the Tractatus is a form of poetry. The form is deliberate...
Of course. A part of something is not the whole of it. The question I asked is: Part of the difficulty we are having is that, as you say: I have no is...
As you are probably aware, hinges are central to what some call the "third Wittgenstein". Although you do not make that claim here, I wonder whether h...
Right. It is rendered meaningless if one assumes, as the behaviorist at PI 307 does, that everything except human behavior is a fiction. If everything...
The term 'bedrock' as it is used at PI 217 is not about certainties. It is rather about the limits of justification when it comes to one's reasons for...
Not the supernatural. Not some realm beyond our own, but rather something that does not have a natural, that is, scientific explanation. My objection ...
The question is prejudiced by framing it in terms of occult inner objects. Rather than objects in the brain it is the development of neural pathways. ...
Returning to this after last nights technical difficulties. Ordinarily when we see pain behavior we do not question whether the person is in pain. We ...
What do you take to be the conclusion? The question of whether he is a behaviorist is not answered. He does not affirm or deny that everything except ...
It is not clear to me what problem you are referring to. I wonder what Wittgenstein would say about cognitive science, He says, for example: (PI 154) ...
With regard to philosophical therapy Wittgenstein says: (PI 133d) It might seem as though Wittgenstein is saying that the solution to philosophical pr...
We must ask why he thinks he will not be understood. He certainly is not wrong, as is evident today with the proliferation of incompatible interpretat...
Looking back over this it is clear to me that too much was left unsaid. In the preface to the Tractatus Wittgenstein says: He concludes the Tractatus ...
Although the grammar is important I think there is something more fundamental and important that informs grammar and can become obscured by a focus on...
I don't think that: is a non-human centered morality, or, for that matter a morality at all. Ziporyn's translation from The Essential Writings, chapte...
From the Philosophy Now "Best Possibe World" article: I don't think we can avoid a human-centered morality, even if we avoid putting what is good for ...
We would not expect attaining and tenuous to be joined together. They seem to contradict each other, but throughout there is a play of opposites: (Cha...
I think there is an ambiguity regarding human action. Some of our ways are in accord with but others contrary to the Way. Naming is something humans d...
Except: I don't think it is a matter of letting go of the desire to know facts. It is the source of facts that is mysterious. Doesn't avoiding danger ...
While the emphasis is often upon withholding judgment, the Greek term skepsis means to inquire. As a "first principle" of philosophy it might be thoug...
(Dao chapter 2) I am not a Daoist sage. For the most part all I have to offer are words, most of which are not even even my own. A great deal has been...
One who has "learned how to nourish life" does not bring things into existence but rather sees and acts in accordance with how things are. (Dao Chapte...
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