The foreman does not say "bring me X". He says "X". If "X" simply meant the object, there would be no activity. The meaning of "X" is determined by th...
What is 'that' and what is it not at odds with? Perhaps I misunderstood what your point was in saying the quote was a good one for me. This may or may...
Thank you for that information. It reinforces my suspicion that: I have often quoted the following: (CV, 24) In this compact statement he touches on t...
The term 'hinge' occurs three times. The first: Much of the discussion of hinges focuses on doubt and neglects the questions that we raise. He draws o...
I think he follows the ancient tradition of esoteric writing: From a draft for the preface to Philosophical Remarks: — Culture and Value It is not tha...
The interpretive challenge is made evident by the fact that interpretations vary widely. He can not possibly mean all these different things attribute...
When discussing a particular philosopher or particular work of that philosopher, to use it as a jumping off point, however valuable that might be, is ...
Are you saying that a bedrock belief (a term that Wittgenstein never used) and a hinge proposition are the same? This is what I take to be the differe...
What are we to do with that proposition? What rests on it? I agree that there are bedrock beliefs that are the backdrop of our epistemology, but I do ...
I think for Wittgenstein it all about making connections. I think I have said a few things about that. I will have to look. Wittgenstein might be more...
Linguistic analysis is an aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophy, but there are other aspects, such as the seeing of aspects and more generally seeing as...
I would include this idea of knowledge as a mental state as metaphysical. I consider the claim that there are mental states of knowing as a metaphysic...
I interpret this differently. Wittgenstein is drawing our attention to the fact that philosophers treat claims of knowledge and certainty as if they a...
Conspiracy theorists connect the dots: What major event occurred during the 2020 election that increased the number of mail in votes? What was the res...
You did not address the questions I asked. If you do so I will address your criticism of the Greeks. I will say this much. I do not mean Greek culture...
What does this mean? Is absorbs another word for accepts? Does his reinterpreting them liberate him from these prejudices? Or does his thinking not ri...
This requires an explanation. What is the connection between Being and ethics? Rather than address this you invoke the names of Focault, Deleuze, Guat...
The problem is evident in the Introduction to Being and Time. Heidegger claims that the question of the meaning of Being is the fundamental question, ...
The word has a specific meaning in the builder's language game. That does not translate to how it might be used elsewhere. Imagine the builder pointin...
There is no single entity "the media". Fox News is a member of the media. All those sources that are competing to be to the right of Fox are members o...
Whatever one might mean when uttering the word 'slab', it has a specific meaning in the builder's language game. In that game 'slab' gets its meaning ...
Reading his Rectoral Address should give you some idea of what support means. His philosophy is amoral. No distinction is made in order to distinguish...
The meaning of the word 'slab' in the builder's language depends on two things: 1. The existence of these objects. 2. What the assistant is to do with...
He supported it though. The Fuhrer and the extermination of Jews and others was, in line with his Protestant provincialism, fated. It is the sending o...
Does one's sense of right and wrong have to be fine grained and absolute to know that the extermination of human beings was wrong in the twentieth cen...
As long as I am name dropping I read Heidegger with William Richardson. This was before the current attention focusing on Heidegger's affiliation with...
Did you know Joe Margolis? He was my thesis advisor. Margolis, a self-professed relativist who stressed the importance of cultural and historical situ...
The Nazi death camps is not something that occurred two centuries ago and was not a widely embraced social norm. However reprehensible slavery was, to...
Well, that is a step in the right direction, but you leave the back door open. To say that it is possible he lost is to say it is possible he did not ...
Contesting an election and attempting to overturn an election are two different things. As much as you attempt for it to be otherwise this is not a pa...
His support of Nazism. Read his Rectoral Address On a more individual basis there is his treatment of Jewish students. We do not have to pick one or t...
That may be one way in which it is practiced but intellectual idealization is not what philosophy is by its very nature. I think Heidegger would rejec...
It is a grave mistake to assume that the two are separate. "Situational ethics" trivializes the extermination of groups of people. Central to Heidegge...
You accused me of hiding something and identified four key points. The first of your key points was that the project was started by a Democrat. He was...
I am not trying to hide anything. Let's look at your key points: 1. As I said, this is not a Democrat vs Republican issue, as your point 4 supports. T...
Of course you don't. At least now that it is clear you can't spin it the way you want. You brought it up. Some key points in the Axios article: 1.The ...
Obviously, you did not read the complaint against Dershowitz. Your spurious allegation that the 65 Project is shadowy is without evidence. This is a t...
You say that he has illustrated how shadowy legal groups like The 65 Project have sought to disbar and condemn the lawyers who work for Trump. How has...
As usual, short on facts and long on hyperbole and misrepresentation. The complaint against Dershowitz has nothing to do with him being a social outca...
Right, but life with a child is not a matter of single examples. The child does not think in terms of 'family resemblance', but rather she learns whic...
It is not the job of a criminal lawyer to aid and abet criminal activity. After the fact, the lawyer's job is to establish that there was no criminal ...
They are named, but the name of things in the child's world are not generally learned by going around pointing. This is how he learns what a table is ...
This is a very odd picture. No one goes around pointing to various things in the child's world and naming them. A child learns the word 'table' in the...
As I read On Certainty it is not that one cannot doubt but that we do not doubt. We are certain that the Earth revolves around the sun. In earlier tim...
The chorus is an independent voice. Part of the ventriloquist's joke is that the dummy has an independent voice. It is an interesting question to what...
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