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This is where we disagree. I think there is a distinction between a propositional logic and a logic "good enough for "a primitive means of communicati...

Not just his own and Russell's work, but the more common assumption that is found in much of philosophy and religion. As I understand it, what is at i...

One way to approach Wittgenstein's philosophical therapy is to ask what one hopes to bring to light from its hiddenness. More generally, what lies beh...

The ultimate ground and what is grounded are two different things. Science does not posit an ultimate ground or one supreme reality. The terms 'ultima...

The two parties today are the Democrats and the Trumpists. With or without Trump they are on their way to becoming the Autocratic Party by some other ...

Proof that they are living in a simulation is not enough. Unless the philosopher escapes, the "real world" remains a hypothetical world. Only someone ...

I am complete skeptic when it comes to Plato. Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols Said by one skeptic about another. It takes a skeptic to know how to r...

It might be more productive to see what he excludes. From On Certainty: 287. The squirrel does not infer by induction that it is going to need stores ...

I just finished watching "The Good Place" while on the stationary bike. The Buddhist story of the wave was told.

Or, perhaps it is the imagining self that dies. And with this prospect some look to charm away their fears and anxiety with stories of not dying.

Why posit an ultimate ground? Is not what is sufficient? Is the world too imperfect for it to exist without it depending on something else? Does being...

Rather than a logic I would say an intelligible regularity. Even in the Tractatus he says: (T 6.41)

And we should not be misled in thinking that the opinion is true or the object is thereby real. What is true and real may remain beyond our grasp. As ...

Wittgenstein's claim that nothing is hidden refers to his rejection of the transcendental logic of the Tractatus. A rejection of the idea that there i...

More generally, when talking about what is the case, it helps to look at the case. My example was me eating cake. How does this compare to your claim ...

If you are talking about the Tractatus, and the quote is from the Tractatus, that is simply wrong. Quoting what Rouse says of the later Wittgenstein, ...

What is the point of a creative misreading blind misunderstanding of Wittgenstein? What are you hiding? Someone can be wrong if they claim that I ate ...

Yes. There is a wrong way and a right way to go wrong.

What I said is that philosophy has become self-referential. So you choose to say nothing? This actually points to the problem. If you cannot even begi...

It will be interesting to see what happens in Bragg's lawsuit against Jim Jordan for interference. Once again Republicans are doing what they accuse o...

I am not among those who have declared the death of philosophy. I think interdisciplinary work in both a path forward and a path back in the sense tha...

I read The Nature of Alexander. I think I read some of her historical fiction but can't recall.

You have moved away from and intentionally created distance from the thread topic. That we think and have ideas is a truism. That our thinking and ide...

I don't think of it as butting in. Is pursuing ideas for their own sake pursuing life for its own sake? I don't think so. If the ideas pursued are abo...

Have your already forgotten what you said? It was only an hour ago. Let me remind you:

Specialization and seriousness are not the same. Getting more complex is not in itself getting anywhere. It is neither resentful nor anti-intellectual...

This has always been the case. For Heidegger the philosopher wears the robe of the prophet. The sacred and holy voice of Being. Here's a little secret...

There are several approaches, "problems of philosophy" which deals with issues in philosophy, history of philosophy, which is a summary of what the ph...

Mostly primary texts. No textbooks. After the introduction course we followed a chronological sequence over four years.

Here is a good article on what he was doing there. It is not that he did not succeed in making it useful, he did not succeed in persuading Dionysius I...

Why do you think there is a logic built into this kind of free play? That is the problem. I don't see the logic in the example given. You say it is th...

I know what the term means. I was assessing what you did say. Not only did you say that you can freely substitute things for each other, you went on t...

For some, it seems to me, it is as if their words are in search of ideas. If they keep writing sooner or later they will stumble across something to s...

It is clear that the game of chess is played by fixed rules. But what about PI 83: If we ask the person who claimed they are following definite rules ...

My mistake. Sorry. You Arne did ask: And did say: The point is, you used the term and did not see it as problematic. It is not a term you are not fami...

That is the point. You said: But philosophical practice and philosophical writing are not the same. The ancient practice of philosophy was not about w...

You said:

Plato pointed to the attitude that philosophy is useless, but he did not attempt to make it useful. Modern philosophy certainly is nothing new. On wha...

I agree. I almost added something along the lines of a Hippocratic Oath for thinkers and thinking.

I think philosophers have always written for philosophers but not only for philosophers. A significant change occurred when mathematical certainty bec...

Original work comes from original thinkers. They are born not made. I would not be surprised if originality will be found outside the university. As m...

I think that change is not going to go in the direction we might hope to see. As tenured professors finally leave it is often the case that they are n...

Yes, there are exceptions. I said as much. I speak from within academia as do the authors of the article @"Moliere" linked to above. The first step is...

Thanks for the link to the article. I like this phrase: It is what I was talking about in my response to Ying above. A few, such as this one: made me ...

Must it be balanced? What does this mean? Wherein lies the balance? The good with the bad? The positive with the negative? What is the balance that tu...

Not who but what. The philosophy industry. This includes not only names we might recognize but thousands we may never hear about. Those who write book...

Somewhere I came across Hegel described as Spinoza plus time. From the preface to the Phenomenology: #17: It is instructive to compare this to what Sp...

I agree. The demand is that philosophy be productive, AKA publish or perish. The proliferation of journals and university publishers arose in order fo...

Indeterminacy is as old as philosophy itself, but it seems as though some today think it is their job to create indeterminacy. As if trying to navigat...

Thanks jgill.