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It is not a matter of a misuse of a word but of a misguided demand being made on the concept "know" which leads to a denial that we know the things we...

What is rejected is not that the picture could be of something else. What is rejected is that it follows from the fact that it could be an picture of ...

It does not follow from a) the fact that there is not a necessary correspondence between a picture and what it is supposed to represent, that b) there...

I'm not so sure it does. Those who know him already know that he is much more successful as a con artist than a businessman. This goes back long befor...

Having spent much of his time correcting philosophers he surely did know that they are not using terms in the ordinary sense. This is a mistake he att...

Yes. The enemy is anyone who questions or is critical of Trump.

The problem is that the Trumpsters do not want to preserve democracy. Democracy is part of the problem. They want an autocratic leader who has the vis...

Sentence 1 is the interlocutor's claim - the mental image is more like its object than any picture. Sentence 2 provides his support for this claim. Se...

Right, but you said: At PI 389 "this" refers to the mental image of a particular object. If you disagree with the interlocutor then we are in agreemen...

Perhaps not, but you would know it is not part of the shared community you live in.

It wouldn't if our way of life was not a shared way of life.

I am not talking about doing specific things but that we do anything at all. What explanation do you have that we do things rather than doing nothing?...

Suppose you went to sleep and when you woke up it was 1923 or 1823. Would you realize that this is not the same world it was when you sent to sleep? O...

In OC Wittgenstein quotes Goethe: Language emerges out of pre-linguistic practices. Social facts include things done not just things said. That we do ...

Hinges are not anti-philosophical. It is not a way of stopping inquiry but what inquiry turns on. Wittgenstein does not claim it does. https://thephil...

I don't think it has anything to do with justified true belief. The question of whether I know that the picture I have of him is a picture of him is o...

I will read and comment in that thread.

In general a mental image need not correspond to any object, but we are discussing PI 389: This is not my requirement. This is the interlocutor's clai...

This is like saying a photo of X is not a likeness of X at all since it being a photo of X is not determined by its likeness to X. A photo of X may to...

The mental image of this refers to the one object it is an image of. Two blurred objects or events is a counterexample. Right. The interlocutor comes ...

That would be interesting.

I agree. I don't agree. Many things can influence our mental images. Two different events can get blurred in the mind. How is it that he might come to...

I don't know what you are looking for. The picture theory is abandoned. Wittgenstein had come to reject the idea that there is a logical structure tha...

I'm okay with that. It is Wittgenstein's imagined interlocutor who makes this claim in the quotations. W.'s response is: One might regard a mental ima...

When the picture itself is an object I agree, but not all pictures are objects. When Wittgenstein says at PI 1: he is talking about a mental image, no...

Why do you call phronesis an extreme?

The way this is stated it seems as though wisdom is something like an object to be found.

You quote PI 424, but that is not about a theory of pictures. Making mental pictures is something we do. Right, as I said: It is not that the picture ...

I think it goes much deeper, to the heart of Republican distrust of government and democracy, and the task of dismantling government agencies.

In the Tractatus the proposition is a picture of a state of affairs, not something between a state of affairs and the proposition. What the later Witt...

It has nothing to do with beetles. As long as you insist of inserting this analogy where it does not belong you will continue to be confused. We follo...

Unless his ever increasing rotating army of lawyers are able to exploit loopholes he is going to find that this defense will be worthless.

Overvalues his properties when seeking loans and undervalues the same properties when he is seeking to defraud the IRS.

Once again: The inherited background is not the world but a picture of the world. Consider the "Mountains and Waters Sutra" of Zen Master Dogen: (3) T...

This is an odd and questionable use of the term 'inherit'. While it is true that we live in a world with mountains, lakes, and clouds, they are not ou...

No. The builder has one language game. The one described by Wittgenstein. It is, as he said, a complete primitive language. (2)

Here you go: Team A plays baseball. A discussion arises when team A scores a home run. NOS, that tireless defender of all things Trump, joins in and s...

You are making much more of this analogy then is warranted. The use of a word is not something in a box. Meaning is use is public not private.

This seems to be another article you did not read. Pomerantz was a prosecutor, he thought he had a strong case against Trump and wanted to bring crimi...

That is Wittgenstein's position! It has been quoted several times including by those who argue as if they disagree with him on this.

Who are you quoting? What evidence do you have that the district attorney's office is no longer pursuing criminal charges? The so called "Hush Money" ...

Let me try to explain this to you. Just as there are things that a baseball team can and cannot do, there are things the NY Attorney General can and c...

When dealing with NOS this should be kept in mind! He has no interest facts or in discussing issues. He is a shill for Trump. He claims to know the di...

Neither of us have been on the building site where the builder's language occurs, but Wittgenstein gives us enough information to know what the word s...

It can but neither of these is what slab means in the builder's language. In the builder's language it cannot be described at all, but what it means c...

If the assistant brought onions he would either be out of a job or undergo further training. Having an intrinsic theory of slabs cannot determine whet...

When the builder calls "slab" the assistant does not bring a mackerel or an onion. Whatever theory you have about what you think must be going on in h...

If you mean Wittgenstein and not @"RussellA" then you are reading him wrong. What does "slab" mean? How does the meaning of slab differ from the build...

When non-Euclidean geometries were invented (discovered?) they were considered parlor games. It was only later, when it became known that astronomical...

The foreman does not say "bring me X". He lacks the words to say so. (PI 2) This language consists only of what we might think of as names of objects,...