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Of course, but I'm not saying that the statement, "I believe I have hands," is any better. The beliefs Wittgenstein is referring to in many cases, are...

I think I will make OC my first video. Making videos going from the Tractatus to OC is something I'd like to do, and I will continue to work on it, bu...

Yes, it does seem that way, but here it's important to note the relationship between knowing and doubting (very important), which Wittgenstein points ...

By the way I added more to my previous response. No, we don't justify that we have hands through sensory experience. Is that how you came to believe y...

A statement of knowledge is a statement that's justified in some way, and there are various kinds of knowledge statement based on different language-g...

Yes, Wittgenstein is pointing out that Moore's propositions seem to be more like statements of conviction, rather than epistemological assertions. Dec...

Post 1 above of Bedrock Beliefs and Their Epistemic Importance has been edited and clarified. Hopefully this paper will clarify my position on OC. My ...

I recently bought a book called An Essay In Aid of a Grammar Assent by John Henry Newman. If you remember, Wittgenstein references Newman in OC 1. I w...

I know this thread was mostly supposed to be about the Tractatus, but it seems I've shifted gears a bit. Although I quote Wittgenstein quite a bit, I'...

This is not the final edited form of this paper. continuing with... Bedrock Beliefs and Their Epistemic Importance (Post 2) Moore’s proof is supposed ...

Let me know what you think because her views are very similar to my own.

Ya, there is no way to know what passages would have been eliminated if he had edited those notes.

As I said in page 7 of this thread I'm trying to complete a series of videos starting with a summary of the Tractatus, a summary of his transitional p...

I would disagree that "questioning religion" should be part of a good definition of philosophy, no more than questioning atheism should be part of a g...

Answers (Answers to Life’s Most Perplexing Questions) That’s right, I’m going to give you the answers to many of the questions that are asked about li...

I'll use an argument formed from Anselm's text to show the argument isn't sound. It's taken from the English text of the Proslogion chapter 2. I think...

This is another good video of an MD (she was an atheist) having an NDE. Much of what she experiences confirms my own conclusions on this subject. As f...

The first proposition (T 1) is a kind of metaphysical basis for truth. Any proposition that doesn't fit the world of facts is metaphysical.

That's an important point often overlooked. W. is doing both in the T., viz., showing using metaphysical propositions (which is why we throw the ladde...

But propositions are not facts, they either mirror a fact, or they mirror or picture a possible fact. It sounds like you're conflating true propositio...

I agree with everything, except, I'm not sure what you mean by the first sentence. Are you saying true propositions are necessarily true?

I may have at some point in the past. Why do you ask?

We can talk about anything that exists, including the metaphysical, as long as we have access to it, so I disagree with W. on this.

Ya, we're very far apart on this. If truth is a property of certain kinds of statements, viz., propositions, then truth is not something unsaid. I can...

We agree that it can be put into a proposition. Where we disagree is that it has propositional form before being used as a proposition. Propositional ...

How can it have propositional form without being a proposition, without being used as a proposition? Are you saying that animals are communicating via...

Truth is a property of propositions, and given that propositions, as used between people, are always used in a context, then truth is context dependen...

Not sure who you're responding to, maybe both of us. All I'm doing is trying to show that logic is not only part of W's thinking in his early philosop...

You're leaving out an important part of what I said, viz., "...the logic is seen in both forms of communication..." the primitive forms that you site,...

It's both, the logic is seen in both forms of communication, i.e., in very primitive forms of life or communication and more sophisticated forms of co...

Logic, viz., propositional logic, is an act of inference using propositions. Not all of our actions are of this type, which I'm sure you know, and not...

That certainly is true, there could be something neurologically wrong. However, my point, and maybe I'm pushing logic a bit to far here, is that apart...

Maybe I'm not being clear. I'm not saying that every game is defined by a set of rules, this is obviously not the case. My point at the start of this ...

I agree that it's not an appeal to logical syntax. When I say the logic of language, it not only includes logical syntax, but Wittgenstein's deeper se...

This is an amazing story of an NDE and its transforming power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDNGOwC3AFM

It's partly what makes up the logic of the game, i.e., without the rules there wouldn't be a logical move. In fact, there would be no game.

Of course, I'm not saying that playing chess necessarily leads to logical moves, but if you know how the pieces move this is part of the logic of the ...

There is no perfect definition of knowledge, and if you're trying to find a perfect definition you're going to be disappointed. Look at it in terms of...

What does logic consist of in W. later philosophy? This is not easy to pin down because it’s not a formalized system like the logic used in the Tracta...

Sounds about right. :grin:

I agree with much of what you're saying, and where we disagree it's seems to be more about the nuances of his thinking, at least that's how I see it.

In terms of Wittgenstein's picture theory and truth function theory of language "he world is all that is the case," at least in the Tractatus. He stil...

I think of passages like the following: "What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical use to their everyday use (PI 116)" And also, "The ...

What I'm saying is, he still believes that the "world is all that is the case," that there is a limit to what can be said in terms of the metaphysical...

As I said a few posts ago I think there is continuity between Wittgenstein's early philosophy and his later philosophy, but there is also much that he...

I do want responses, and they are appreciated, but I also know when an issue isn't going to get resolved within a few posts. Even if we spend hours an...

I'm not going to get into a long drawn out discussion about interpretation. We'll never resolve that issue. Besides this is beyond the scope of what I...

So, the word logic is empty to you? You see no thread in terms of the logic of language that goes from his early thinking to his later thinking? That ...

I agree, which is why I said "what is meant by the logic of language in his early thinking is much different from the logic of language in his later t...

There are probably more than 15 ideas in the T. that Wittgenstein rejected, but there is also continuity between his early ideas and his later ideas. ...