For me it's important to distinguish between claims (statements/propositions) and facts, i.e., states of affairs. If a statement is true, then it repr...
My point is in the context of Moore's statements in his papers A Defense of Common Sense (1925), and Proof of an External World (1939) in which Moore ...
You missed my acknowledgment of that mistake, you are correct about the things in 1.1 being objects, which he points out in 2.01. Continuing with the ...
From what I've read and heard things in this statement are not objects. We're not at the object stage yet. However, that is a possible interpretation ...
Post 2 The Tractatus is divided into seven major propositions, and these propositions are divided and further subdivided. The seven propositions are t...
2/29/24 The Tractatus: In light of some of the remarks made in the thread “Wittgenstein’s creative sublimation of Kant,” I will explain some parts of ...
That's not the point. The point is that all true propositions according to W. would completely describe reality or the world, and that's all I was say...
When I say, “…there is a one-to-one correspondence between what can be said about the world, and the facts of the world…” I’m referring to true propos...
I don't take the picture theory of the Tractatus seriously. However, I do think there is something to the idea that some true propositions picture, co...
This is like saying when studying mathematics, I'm okay with the subject as long as we avoid multiplication and division. You can't be serious. For no...
There's so much disagreement it's difficult to make headway. I'm having a hard enough time keeping up with the thread on On Certainty. The problem is ...
If we go by the definition of a proposition in logic, then propositions/statements (which are not exactly the same, but close enough for our purposes)...
Who in the world said this? Where did I even imply that the inherited background can be transferred from person to person? My point is exactly the sam...
I disagree, if I understand you, that facts are truths. They are two different things. Truths are about propositions, and what makes a proposition tru...
Did you give me the correct link? That abstract is more about intentionality than bedrock beliefs? Much of what I'm referring to is bedrock beliefs an...
What I'm saying is that our inherited background (that we live in a world with mountains, lakes, clouds, hands, feet, etc), which is not a system of b...
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. If you note the first sentence, it's beliefs about these things, hands, mountains, trees, etc. So we hav...
(I want to be clear that there are other names associated with these beliefs. The obvious one is hinge-proposition (OC 341), but others come to mind, ...
My point about mental states is that Witt believed that Moore's statement, "I know I have hands," is more about his mental conviction or belief than a...
"For "I know" seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always forgets the expression "I thoug...
Actually Moore is appealing to what seems to be obvious to all of us, viz, having knowledge of his hands. The skeptic makes the same mistake that Moor...
I would agree that many philosophers do treat knowing as if it's a metaphysical claim (many people do this, not just professional philosophers), at le...
Prior to language there have to be beliefs that ground us. Just as prior to playing a game of chess there are beliefs that are necessary to the game. ...
I would say it's more than problematic. One cannot doubt the very thing that gives rise to knowing and doubting. So, I would say in many cases (especi...
Why would you say that? There are plenty of language-games that reflect facts or states-of-affairs. Many of the language-games of science reflect fact...
You seem to think that if you view Witts work as above most philosophers that it's somehow giving him godlike power. I'm just saying that his intellec...
Why are trying to make Wittgenstein fit your idea of what should or should not be said. All your doing is inserting your subjective feelings into the ...
He's trying to get people out of the pig pen. He's trying to clarify our philosophical thinking, which is no easy task. I think Wittgenstein went off ...
We know that there are many different language-games, and some of these language-games, (e.g. religious and political language-games) don't always ref...
For me, OC provides the best foundation for understanding epistemology, and should be used as our starting point for understanding epistemology. OC al...
As I've pointed out before, Wittgenstein talks about two kinds of certainty in OC, subjective certainty and objective certainty (for e.g. OC 245). Wit...
First, I should've responded like I did. Second, I'm not sure that my disagreements are the same as @"Banno's." - some probably are. Third, I'm respon...
I just don't have the motivation to give much of a response. I haven't read many of the responses given in the recent pages. I've read yours and Luke'...
It doesn't matter if it's rhetorical or if he's pretending, it's nonsense. Descartes was just confused on this point. Moreover, Wittgenstein's ideas g...
The use of the words, doubt, know, believe, being conscious, all have correct and incorrect grammatical uses within certain contexts or forms of life;...
This is important to understand. It reaches into the issue of consciousness itself, and it's why Descartes is wrong about "I think, therefore I am." T...
Logic, i.e., propositional logic is about correct reasoning. It's about the process of collecting reasons (i.e., propositions) and drawing conclusions...
The quote from PI 258 is about the so-called private language argument. I have no problem with the PLA. I think it's clear that rule-following in a pr...
What accurately means depends on context. So if we give people the same color patches and they describe them using the same words I use, then what mor...
This is where I disagree with Wittgenstein. I agree that meaning doesn't reside as a thing in the mind/brain, but I disagree that it's a "something ab...
Wherever you have systems of belief and the analysis of those beliefs, you'll have philosophy. In this sense philosophy will always be relevant. What ...
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