Objects contain within them all of the possible ways in which they can combine. If I know an object I also know all its possible occurrences in states...
2.01: A combination of elementary objects would be a state of affairs. A table is a combination of elementary objects. A fact of the world. I think th...
By 'things' he means simple or elementary objects not configurations of things such as tables and chairs. (2.02) (2.021) Tables and chairs are composi...
In a now famous letter to von Ficker Wittgenstein says: Ethical claims are meaningless but ethics is not. Ethics lies outside the limits of logical co...
Sure, we can drop it. But what it means for the limit of my language to be the limit of my world is not a side line and is not pointless. We cannot a ...
Immediately before saying the limits of my language means the limits of my world. (5.6) He says: (5.571) The idea of having all true propositions is n...
One need not put aside the question of truth, but the question of whether what he says is true should not come before the question of what it is he is...
Both terms 'zetetic' and 'skeptic' originally meant inquiry. It is not skepticism in the modern dogmatic sense, which denies the possibility of knowle...
Relativism is the term used in the OP as the opposite of an absolute position. The problem with the term 'fallibilism' is that it is usually defined i...
In order to give a complete description of the world one would have to know all the facts of the world. Is there anyone who knows all the facts of the...
I think he is claiming that facts are not descriptions. That we cannot give a complete description of the world. That we cannot derive the content of ...
Is what what I think Wittgenstein is claiming? That facts are not descriptions? That we cannot give a complete description of the world? That we canno...
Facts are not descriptions. If we knew the totality of facts we would be able to give a complete description of the world, but we do not have the tota...
Everything that can be said about the world includes saying things that are not true. A complete picture of the world would not include an equal numbe...
It is pointless to say that what can never be said can be said. Your words: Everything that can be said about the world would not give us a complete p...
As I read him, Plato is a relativist. Only not the kind of relativist that Schindler attacks. The argument is simple. Knowledge of ignorance means tha...
Right, but you never will have all true propositions. All that we say does not limit what there is. The picture does not depict a particular form. (2....
This is misleading. We would not have completely described the world. The reason is twofold: First, given all the simple objects we know all their pos...
Wittgenstein's claim that logic is transcendental differs fundamentally from Kant's transcendental idealism. Logic is the condition for both the world...
A common response to this is: "think" or "think about it" or "think it through". We might also ask for an explanation. You are late to the party. This...
Ask your hat. Is it necessary that there be a logical structure underlying mind in order to identify a contradiction? If someone is given contradictor...
I think Wittgenstein would say no: (5.4731) (3.02) It is the logical structure underlying language and not mind that is a check against illogical thou...
Back when I used to pay a bit of attention to such things there was, as you note, disagreement as to whether he meant the human form of life or human ...
It is not my representation. It is what Wittgenstein says. I cited it. Unless you are claiming that he means something else by the term 'transcendenta...
I would argue in favor of forms of human life. (PI 19) To imagine such a language is to imagine a form of life that is different from ours. (PI 241) W...
I think this misses the mark. It is logic rather than language which is transcendental. Logic is the transcendental condition that makes language poss...
Things are not so different today. Stories and songs still play a major role in shaping what we find desirable, and what we desire is the basis of wha...
For Plato the distinction between philosophy, poetry, and sophistry is not as clear-cut as he makes it seem. Without getting too far into it, his writ...
The term poet comes from the Greek poiein which means to make. The poets were the makers of myths, of stories, of images of men and gods. They were no...
This platform will do just fine. I did not start this topic. Others crop up all the time. If you have an issue with it take it up with the moderators....
Of course. But they need not be alone in doing so. They might find discussion and the articulation of questions helpful. What pedigree? There is no pe...
Of course it does! Perhaps not to you but it makes a great deal of difference to some who question whether they can remain Christian and not believe t...
In the ancient Greek concept of number the first number is two. One is the unit of the count, what it is that is being counted. We see this here: The ...
It is the position that is under discussion. The question was raised, and not by me, whether Jesus was a real person. I joined in to say: This was fol...
Is it your position that Christianity is whatever you want it to be as long as believers are decent to one another, regardless of what else is believe...
I asked the question of how we are to understand Jesus against the background of how he is understood within Christianity. Put differently, what does ...
If you ignore what was actually said and done and evidently valued, and in its place assert your own version of universality, then things might seem t...
But there are no major religions worshiping these figures. Does this mean that Christianity is an enormous mistake? How do we distinguish between esse...
I mean such things as the Sermon on the Mount. How do you know he was poor? Perhaps the drama was part of the stories told about him. Why guilt? What ...
How are we to understand him? If there is nothing unique about him what does this mean for Christianity? If the stories of Jesus are distortions then ...
I read Kazantzakis some years ago. I do not remember whether he addresses the following. For many Christians death and resurrection is of central impo...
The evidence may not be so solid: https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-son-of-god-story-is-built-on-mythology-not-history My guess is that he did exist but ...
So, rather than referencing the various and diverse things that have been said you replace what was actually said with your own notion of goodness. As...
I agree, but who will get elected is not a matter of objective judgment. The damage has been done. Why didn't Hur just leave it there? He is not quali...
I do not think history supports this claim. Both of the terms, goodness and perfection, have various meanings. You move from a claim about the histori...
I can't be of much help, but can suggest a possible way forward. Sections V through VIII of Kant's introduction are entitled: This is not an account o...
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