I don't give two shits about anti-realists. My reading has nothing to do with anti-realists. Good God, have you lost your mind. Go talk to MU, maybe y...
I don't mean by "stand alone"' that it's not connected to a person. Why do you think I said it's a claim or belief? A claim or belief, is by definitio...
I have no problem with that view. It's probably a better way to say it. I think there are different kinds of hinges too. I believe that non-linguistic...
This is an important point I tried to make earlier in the thread, and it's where a lot of confusion happens. Moore's propositions (not really proposit...
Wittgenstein had a more pragmatic idea of truth. It was never outlined as some are doing in this thread. It was never, something is true, iff such and...
You apparently haven't studied logic. The argument is a hypothetical syllogism, which means that it's valid. What you have to demonstrate is that one ...
I agree with you on this point. Wittgenstein is not concerned with a theory of knowledge. And, he definitely believes that ordinary use (not to be con...
Where did I conflate knowledge with truth? The problem is in how you're interpreting what I'm saying, not that I'm conflating knowledge with truth. A ...
Don't spin my argument into what it isn't, since it's about justification and truth. Justification and truth are necessarily intertwined. What in the ...
Of course there about justification. Why do you think I say there about the process of arriving at truth. That is the justification process. It's not ...
Knowledge is a success word, it refers to a process that achieves its goal. What is that goal? The goal is simply the truth. So, an attack on knowledg...
It depends on what you mean by grounded? Are you using grounded as a synonym for justification? If I utter, "Here is a broom," to someone familiar wit...
I've referred to them in multiple ways, especially as bedrock beliefs. For me, the language-game of certainty is wider in its scope. In particular, on...
For myself I don't think of hinge-propositions as propositions, which is why they're referred to in a number of ways (bedrock propositions, basic beli...
I don't learn to calculate because 1+1=2 is true, no more than I learn to move a bishop because it's true that bishops move diagonally. I act in accor...
The mathematical propositions you're referring to are not bedrock. Their use in terms of your bank account have nothing to do with what I'm am talking...
Because the basic propositions of mathematics function like rules, grammatical rules, it's not a matter of them being true or false, generally speakin...
I'm just going to do a general post because I just don't have the energy to respond to all of you. Much of the problem probably stems from the differe...
First, I want to say that my view, although much the same as Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, was arrived at quite independent of her. I gave the link because ...
To understand what hinge-propositions are, one needs to understand what beliefs are; and if you don't agree or understand this, then you won't fully g...
Another similar paper in line with my own thinking of this subject, at least generally. https://www.academia.edu/61206520/Wittgensteins_Hinge_Certaint...
There is much being written on this subject, but here is some of what I'm talking about. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. https://uhra.herts.ac....
Oh no, we've gone backwards. Truth is included with knowing and justification, because, again, knowing entails truth, and what is it that you're justi...
Yes, except, it's not a matter of them being circular, it's a matter of the statements being meaningful. Damn Seppo, it seems you have understood my p...
No, you're quite right to point this out. Wittgenstein's wording, viz., hinge-propositions, bedrock proposition, etc., is pointing out something speci...
The fact that you're saying, "From your not knowing that the capital of Vanuatu is Port Vila it doesn't follow that it isn't true that it's the capita...
I appreciate your take, but I don't think that is what Wittgenstein is saying in OC. Moreover, I don't think that hinge-propositions are propositions ...
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm not denying that there are claims that are either true or false. I'm denying that there are unknown truths, there ...
To understand that the phrase "unknown truth" is nonsense or senseless, all we have to do is think of cases where in our ordinary use we speak like th...
I'm inclined to agree with Luke. In fact, I would go so far as to say change is analytic to time. For there to be time, there would have to be a chang...
Here's another way of making my point. If there is a proposition X that is an unknown truth, then the proposition, "X is true, but unknown" is true. I...
I'll try one more time. Statements/propositions have two possible values (true or false), i.e., they either match with the facts or they don't. The cl...
The proposition that, "My truck has an unknown weight," is true, but that proposition is known to be true, viz., you know that you don't know the weig...
I can't make any sense of the idea that there are propositions that are true, but I don't know if their true, it's contradictory. The problem, is the ...
This is a re-written continuation of the post at the following location: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/644130 This section of the ...
My goal is to present an inductive argument, as outline in my thread on "Does Consciousness Survive the Death of the Body." The argument, I believe, d...
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