I'm a Wittgensteinian at least to a large extent when it comes to language. If we want to understand what a belief is, then we look at various uses of...
This is just a confusion as far as I can determine. The concept belief has various uses, one use is to say "Mary believes X" because Mary made the sta...
I've read this a couple of times and can make very little sense of what you're trying to say. You throw around some philosophical terms but that's abo...
It seems you're pushing me in that direction. Maybe it's that I put more importance on the mind, but that doesn't mean that meaning resides in the min...
Yes, but that's not my only point. I'm pointing out that there's the agent and the proposition, but there is also those acts that show the belief. You...
He definitely thought that religious arguments were not about facts, because facts are part of the world in which we act, whether linguistic or not. "...
As highly as I think of Wittgenstein, he was just wrong about what can be said about the metaphysical. Language is embedded in reality, and reality is...
First, you never attack any of the premises of the argument. You just make very general statements, for the most part. Second, my comment that people ...
What I do say, is that beliefs are not necessarily a product of statements such as, "X believes that P." Those are only beliefs that are part of the l...
The point of Kant and Russell about existence not being a predicate is that existence is not something individuals possess, it's about the concepts of...
I'm not saying that people don't have beliefs that are not readily known to others. I'm saying that if we're to say that Mary has a belief, then for u...
You don't seem to understand the point of this thread. I've constructed an inductive argument based on the testimonial evidence. It's not about me pre...
Do you usually draw conclusions without seeing the arguments? It started with a thread I created years ago in another forum. The thread started as an ...
What you are unaware of is the ongoing discussion that some of us been having about beliefs. This discussion goes back 7 or 8 years. It started with t...
How would you know if someone has a belief if there is no evidence of that belief? That's the question that interests me. How are belief states exhibi...
Where did your beliefs about cars come from? You didn't develop your beliefs in a vacuum. At some point you saw a car, or were told about cars, or int...
Why? I'm giving an argument based on inductive reasoning. It's part of the study of metaphysics. You may not agree with my conclusion, but it's still ...
Why do I think that there are many questions that we can't answer? It seems that that is the case with many subjects. Our knowledge is just incomplete...
Obviously there are questions that can't be answered about an afterlife, just as there are many questions about quantum mechanics or consciousness tha...
There's definitely a relation between individuals and beliefs, this seems obvious. However, I would go further, viz., beliefs are relations between in...
It's really about learning, about accumulating knowledge, and not being afraid to think outside the box. If you think this reality is all there is, fi...
I'm going to make some final comments about the argument presented in this thread. Those of you who have studied propositional logic are familiar with...
I've been skeptical of these sightings for years until recently. The Navy has been tracking these off the east coast and also off the west coast, and ...
What kind of argument is that? You're basically saying, "I don't agree with you so I'm right and you're wrong. That's not an argument, and it's not do...
Part of what philosophy does is to examine various beliefs and belief systems in relation to reality (physical or metaphysical). Some of the philosoph...
There are other uses of the concept absolute, but it seems pretty clear to me what is meant by absolute certainty. We're referring to an epistemologic...
In logic there are two kinds of arguments (inductive and deductive), an inductive argument means the argument is either strong or weak based on the st...
Any system of beliefs, to the extent that they use reason (logic) or some other epistemological method of justification to support their ideas, is doi...
I've been referring to beliefs as states of mind reflected in our actions (linguistic and non-linguistic), but the one thing that I should also emphas...
Bedrock Beliefs and Their Epistemic Importance (My Philosophic View of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty) Post 3 Wittgenstein points out that Moorean propos...
There are all kinds of motives or reasons why people pray, some good, some not. I wonder about the efficacy of prayer. People pray, for e.g., for safe...
Wittgenstein does reject that language can reach into the world of metaphysics. It's part of his philosophy from beginning to end. What he doesn't rej...
There is no theory of language that will answer your question (this question: "...do we need a theory of language that explains how any realist claim ...
That's what's wrong with a lot of thinking today, everything is subjective. But if they truly believed that meaning is subjective, then your subjectiv...
The quote is self-refuting, i.e., it's expressing a particular philosophical point of view that basically says that philosophy is an exercise in futil...
Post 2 continues... OC begins with the following statement: “If you do know that here is one hand, we’ll grant you all the rest (OC 1).” Wittgenstein ...
I'm moving the revision of the paper on Bedrock Beliefs and Their Epistemic Importance back to this thread, where it belongs. Post 1 3rd Revision 06/0...
The following is what Googles AI chat service, called Bard, said about Wittgenstein's On Certainty. I thought is was pretty good. "Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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