Post 16 (edited 5/10/24) To appreciate Wittgenstein, one must realize that certain terms in the Tractatus have a Wittgensteinian twist, especially ter...
Post 15 Wittgenstein specifies what the aim of the Tractatus is, viz., “…to draw a limit to thought, or rather—not to thought, but to the expression o...
The answer to this question is not easy. The answer will cover the psychological, one's intelligence, and the epistemological, and that's just the beg...
When you say, "I just see my hands, feel them, use them, so I know I have hands," you're giving an argument using a sensory justification. It seems to...
I agree that pictures don't compose the world. Wittgenstein's picture theory is composed of thought and propositions, thought (we picture facts to our...
I'm wondering what you're saying here. Are you saying that looking at your hands (sensory observation) provides a justification for the belief that yo...
I view each of your examples as different ways to justify a belief, and each of these justifications, it seems to me, falls under the subject of epist...
This is exactly where we need to begin because we get our meanings from how we, as a group (not as individuals but as a group) of language users, use ...
I did say that I was going to sum this up in a couple more posts, but it seems there will be a few more than I thought. Post 14 There is a clear, at l...
Interesting NDE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfaPCwjguk This is a good example of why I believe both religions and materialists have it wrong. T...
I guess at some point when discussing this Wittgenstein's logic begins to break down, but I'm not sure where it begins breaking down. I point this out...
Post 13 According to K.T. Fann Wittgenstein is trying to answer two questions “How are propositions related to the world?” and “How are propositions r...
No, I wouldn't go that far. My intention was not to go this far into the meanings of these Wittgensteinian concepts and their place in the world. It's...
Both are true, I believe. As I pointed out in post 12, one of the internal properties of objects is that they can combine with other objects. Whether ...
I'm thinking along the lines of what Wittgenstein said, viz., "...there is no object that we can imagine excluded from the possibility of combining wi...
Post 12 Trying to be clear about objects, so a step back. We know this, viz., that objects, which make up the substance of the world, can be arranged ...
Sorry, I'm falling behind. I'm in the middle of a move, and I'm recovering from a virus. I've made a couple of misstatements that I have to also corre...
Post 11 We know, according to Wittgenstein, that propositions are pictures of possible states of affairs (facts). “A picture has logico-pictorial form...
Post 10 We know that the idea of propositions being pictures, as presented in his picture theory of propositions, is central to his thinking in the Tr...
You're not saying there are untrue facts are you? Every proposition represents a possible fact, but whether the proposition is true or not is dependen...
@"Banno" It's easy to be misunderstood because of Wittgenstein's use of these concepts. Hell, even Wittgenstein couldn't remember what he meant by cer...
I would probably clarify it this way: The logical form of a true proposition matches the logical form of a positive fact. Some of the confusion has be...
Post 9 Just a couple of points of clarification before I continue. When a proposition is true it mirrors a positive fact. False statements are possibl...
Post 8 I will continue with a few more remarks. All of this is still under the second main proposition of the Tractatus. “What is the case—a fact—is t...
Much of what we know is probabilistic, i.e., I know based on inductive reasoning. E.g., I know my car will start tomorrow morning, and I know I will p...
Every proposition (true or false) presents a picture of a possible state of affairs. If the picture matches the facts (state of affairs) of reality, t...
I don't disagree with these statements. I might argue over the wording of this, i.e., the analysis of language brings us to names, the smallest compon...
Post 7 Wittgenstein wasn’t blind to the fact that he was unable to give examples of objects. He says for example, “Our difficulty was that we kept on ...
Thanks for the compliment. As for Russell being influenced by Mach, I agree. The physicist and philosopher Ernst Mack did influence Russell's work, es...
Post 6 Wittgenstein’s reasoning was that if I assert that “Plato was a philosopher,” I know what I mean. But who is Plato and what is a philosopher? I...
Post 5 In the previous post we talked a little about the 2nd of the seven main propositions of the Tractatus. Wittgenstein spends about six pages on t...
Post 4 It's important to understand that Wittgenstein is trying to answer the question of why it’s possible to make statements about the world. He ans...
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