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This picture of language is the picture drawn in the Tractatus. The word slab as used in the builder's language does not simply refer to the slab in t...

No. I thought the chorus did not speak directly to the actors. There is another difference. The laws are not a separate character or entity, but Socra...

No. I plead ignorance. Perhaps you can persuade me. I see that they are alike in so far as many voices sing as one, but my impression is that the chor...

The example of the shopkeeper and the apples is in response to the picture of language as words naming objects. (PI 1) Red is not the name of an objec...

The first thing that comes to mind in making that comparison is that unlike the works of the playwrights the dialogues do not contain a chorus.

Socrates states what is at issue in the Philebus: (11b-c, Horan's online translation) The first thing to be noted is that Philebus' claim that what is...

A few quick comments: Socrates says he has had this dream before and had always understood it to mean doing what he is always doing: Now he thinks the...

From Wittgenstein's Zettel: (352)

One problem is that if we are not experts or wise how can we evaluate whether someone else is? Socrates uses the example of a trainer. If he is able t...

I won't speak for anyone else, but as I see it, what is at issue is not agreement or disagreement but the strength of an interpretation. A problematic...

But he denies knowing anything noble and good (Apology 21d). We should be open to the possibility that no such expert exists. He does say that we shou...

Sometimes other means of "persuasion" are necessary.

Unlike modern skepticism, Socratic skepticism is the condition that gives rise to and guides his inquiry. The Greek term skepsis means both doubt and ...

The same was and is said of Socrates. The reason in both cases can be found in the preface to PI:

It certainly is, but part of the rhetorical strategy is to deny that the warnings are threats. "I'm not saying this is what I or we will do, but it is...

This is exactly what @"schopenhauer1" was talking about with his neologism the "TPF effect".

Doubt, or more precisely, knowledge of ignorance, is central to Socratic philosophy. Socrates was not plagued by doubt. On the contrary, he went to hi...

Actually, I have often wondered what your intentions are. What you attempt to do and whatever your intentions might be in doing so are two different t...

No mind reading necessary. No matter how you attempt to dress it up your arguments fall under two related themes: defending Trump and radical individu...

Much nicer than what I came up with but did not say because I am pretending to be nice.

A few come to mind, but ...

No, I'm a vegetarian. (Not really). This is just an attempt to repackage your same old argument. In your attempt to defend your desire to benefit from...

He does not ignore the fact that a language game has a use in the world. The language game develops out of and is understood within the context of a f...

I have tried, repeatedly over many threads. More often than not I don't bother though.

Are you just playing at being obtuse or do you really not understand what is at issue?

What jungle? There is only a bunch of different individuals in the same place.

The difference is that a forest is not just a bunch of individual trees, it is a self-sustaining ecosystem.

What he didn't realize is that he was in a forest. There is a difference, but for the same reasons he would deny he was in a thicket.

If trees could talk there would be one in the forest claiming that there is no forest: "When I look around all I see are trees. No where does this fic...

Well, as they used to say on American Bandstand, "Its got a good beat and you can dance to it". So I think this Plato guy just might have a hit or two...

If he succeeds it would be a Pyrrhic victory.

Sometimes when someone tells me that I apologize. (A serious joke.)

We tend to impose our own beliefs and ideas on what this term means. I think it helpful to consider something Homer, who in the Phaedo Socrates calls ...

The first mention of law does not occur until 50a. It is also here that we find the first mention of the city. The first mention of justice occurs ear...

I don't know what might stand as an orthodox reading today but, to quote Marx: (Groucho) I take responsibility for my interpretation but I don't think...

I think that it is clear that Socrates wants Crito to accept it. It is also clear that Socrates abides by the decision of the court. Before imagining ...

If we are to understand Wittgenstein we would do well to look at what he points to, what people do and say, and not posit theories. If I cut myself or...

I think the law has it backwards. There would be no human nomos, that is, not simply laws and statutes, but custom or convention or norms, without men...

Justice (dike) is more important than law (nomos). Law is in the service of justice, but they can be in conflict. Consider, for example, the rule of t...

You are right, he always refers to it as his daemonion. I have not paid much attention to this and do not feel qualified to say much about it. There i...

What is at issue can be seen if we put it in the form of a question: are the laws for the benefit of man or is man for the benefit of the laws? From t...

It is neither.

Maybe because the truth matters. Changing his mind doesn't.

This is the problem. There is no general agreement as to who the right people are. What some might consider good others might not.

I am convinced of the importance of just law, but not that he is the slave (West translation) of the law. The Greek term is "doulos". I don't know why...

Because it hurt. I could have said some other things or let out an inarticulate exclamation.

Yes, that is correct. It is Trump who "had" to and "wanted" to and "needed" to find these votes. Election officials must remain neutral. Trump switche...

Once again: multiple investigations had already been carried out and did not find what Trump and Trumpsters wanted. His allegations of fraud have not ...

The problem is, multiple investigations had already been carried out and did not find what Trump and Trumpsters wanted. The only finding they would ac...

If I stub my toe I may say "ouch" even if no one else is around to hear me. Certainly this is not intended to communicate a private sensation to other...