Of all the people I've engaged with over the years in this forum you're one of the few that remind me of a troll. I've been debating people in this fo...
All knowledge is about beliefs (unless we're talking about knowledge as a skill), and from the start of OC Witt talks about what Moore considers knowl...
It seems that language games are only possible if we don’t question certain facts, and whether these facts are true or false. Here I’m referring to hi...
My interpretation of OC comes closest to Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire). I arrived at my interpretation quite independent of her...
Well, I don't view good reasons as something subjective, as if it's just some decision I make arbitrarily. Unpacking this can be tedious, but I don't ...
I'm not sure that we have the same view on hinge beliefs. It depends on what you mean by "logical consequences" of a hinge belief. There is no doubt t...
Some may have as part of their hinge beliefs that sacrificing a child will yield more crops. So, are hinge beliefs relative to some system of beliefs?...
Of course they're convinced, which is why they consider it a hinge. One could argue based on some of Witt's remarks that there are hinges of different...
For many religions, belief in God is a hinge. — Sam26 I'm not saying that people don't use it as a hinge. I'm saying it's not a proper hinge. There co...
I believe this is incorrect, and it's a misunderstanding of what it means to know. I assume your use of the phrase "definitely know the truth" means t...
I know that he doesn't agree, I've talked with him and listened to his lectures on Youtube. My point in bringing him up was that he talks about how a ...
What is the nature of a hinge belief? What if someone's world picture includes belief in God as a hinge belief? Or, what if another world picture excl...
"I should like to say: Moore does not know what he asserts he knows, but it stands fast for him, as also for me; regarding it as absolutely solid is p...
The most difficult part of Wittgenstein's epistemology is to understand the groundlessness of our epistemology. The whole system is predicated on arat...
"When Moore says he knows such and such, he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing; proposition...
I'm not saying there's no value in discussing and defending these ideas because there is, and I know that others are reading as we write. The frustrat...
"Can one say: "Where there is no doubt there is no knowledge either (OC 121)." The doubt, in the sense of challenging one's knowledge claim, is essent...
We have to remember that Wittgenstein never finished this work (OC), so it hasn't been edited. We don't know what passages would have been left in, an...
The mental state Wittgenstein seems to be referring to is the mental state of conviction. Moore's use of "I know..." is just that, a conviction of cer...
Again, what I'm saying is that there are uses of the word know, as Witt points out, that are not epistemological. For example, "I know...," as an expr...
Science uses the same justification methods we all do, logic (inductive and deductive reasoning), sensory experience (observation), and testimony (pee...
It could simply mean that your inductive reasoning, which is a legitimate form of knowing is only probable (most of science is inductive). So, I could...
Witt seems to point to two senses of know and certainty throughout OC. He talks about using know as an expression of a conviction which is not an epis...
I'm saying that knowing and doubting as epistemological uses are more sophisticated language games. Knowing and doubting does not occur as an epistemo...
Right, he never implies that "to know" means some infallibility on our part. I don't think Wittgenstein would use phrasing like "P necessarily implies...
"Giving grounds , however, justifying the evidence, comes to an end;--but the end is not certain propositions' striking us immediately as true, i.e., ...
"The reason why the use of the expression "true or false" has something misleading about it is that it is like saying "it tallies with the facts or it...
Wittgenstein's point is that no justification is required. Certain propositions, viz., hinge propositions are generally outside our epistemological la...
"What does this mean: the truth of a proposition is certain (OC 193)?" "With the word 'certain' we express complete conviction, the total absence of d...
"Even if the most trustworthy of men assures me that he knows things are thus and so, this by itself cannot satisfy me that he does know. Only that he...
At the bottom of our epistemological use of "I know..." is an ungrounded way of acting, in other words, justification comes to an end. It ends with "....
I think sometimes we lump hinges into a very large pot, as though they're all the same. However, that there are other objects or other minds isn't goi...
It seems to me that knowledge and doubt are two sides of the same coin, i.e., you can't have one without the other. "Can one say, 'Where there is no d...
"If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty (OC 115)." What is ...
"And isn't that what Moore wants to say, when he says he knows all these things?--But is his knowing it really what is in question, and not rather tha...
"And now if I were to say 'It is my unshakeable conviction that etc.', this means in the present case too that I have not consciously arrived at the c...
Yes, and this is just what he did, he was in front of people when he expressed his "common sense" view that he knew he had a hand. It's not always as ...
"The truths which Moore says he knows, are such as, roughly speaking, all of us know, if he knows them (OC 100)." Of course, Moore does not know what ...
So, what might a theory of knowledge look like for Wittgenstein given the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty? Of course, this question migh...
I agree with this. Part of what I mean by our inherited background is not only the fact that we have hands but also the use of our hands within the co...
One of the most important ideas that arose out of Wittgenstein's unfinished final notes (On Certainty) is the logical connection between knowledge and...
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