I guess it depends on how far you want to take it. I talk to people about this stuff all the time, but I'm measured, I'm not always measured in this f...
Many Christians need to be challenged on some of these beliefs. I remember arguing with one Christian many years ago who believed that if you didn't "...
I haven't given any examples because I've assumed that most people know, that any use of a word in a sentence, is an example of how it's used. So, if ...
Oh, I get it Harry, you're joking, right? You're trying to be funny, because I can't make any sense of this apart from a joke. If I say a word has a u...
Sime, you're wrong about the arrow example, and about a "look up table." Let's see if I can make this clear. Wittgenstein asks in (PI 454), "How does ...
I just listened to the podcast that you provided about Lewis and his thinking. I think it's reasonable to ask the questions Lewis asked, I've asked th...
In what follows I've tried to condense some of what's been said in this thread and elsewhere. Wittgenstein has an important point, namely, that the me...
You have no idea as to how much care I put into studying the Bible, or theology for that matter, that's pure speculation! I was interested enough to s...
I'm not saying there is no God, I don't know, and neither does anyone else. I don't believe there is such a being as presented in the Bible, or any ot...
I'm going back to Wittgenstein. I'm not getting into arguments over this or that translation, or whether the Greek or Hebrew says this or that. What I...
I mean have you read the OT? God commanded the Israelites to go into villages and slay every man, women, child, and animal, what does that say about t...
The point is that people can easily interpret this or that verse, in this or that way. But there are plenty of verses in the Bible that indicate, at t...
Well, it's debatable whether having a belief can cause harm. Having any belief is assenting to something, so it's a kind of action. It may not be over...
Many Christians believe this Tim, and they infer it from verses like 2 Thess. 1: 8,9 "...in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not kno...
Ya, there are always those who disagree, that's part of the philosophical world. But, I don't want to turn this thread into an argument about Wittgens...
Ya, I agree with you, this kind of thinking is really weird. I don't know how any person with an ounce of moral aptitude could possibly think that thi...
I would not say that Wittgenstein is a phenomenologist or even close to a phenomenologist, and I don't think that "facts of reality" is problematic, n...
The incoherence or lack of sense of the uses of certain concepts is one thing, but that's separate from reality itself. For example, I may use a conce...
Part of what I see happening with Wittgenstein's ideas of meaning, is that it's used almost as a denial of internal experiences, or if you will, the d...
Did I say anything close to, "...therefore everything say ought to be dismissed as a misunderstanding" No! Again, another misinterpretation of what's ...
The point here, is that if someone says (not me or W.), that the inner thing is a kind of picture of some thing (which it's not, i.e., it can't be con...
Much has been said in these posts about using words to refer to some inner experience; not that we cannot use words in this way, but that when we atta...
I don't quite agree that each of us lives in a world of subjective experience. I think we have both subjective and objective experiences. However, bot...
In one sense we are inclined to say that if I express my thoughts or feelings, then those are my thoughts or feelings. They're not shadows of my thoug...
The way I think about this, is the following: Thoughts, and for that matter consciousness, and here we're talking about the concepts, are reflected in...
How do you go from having a "congenital logical problem," to racism? All he means is you have a persistent or chronic problem. That's kind of a low bl...
You should think of a word like a tool, as Wittgenstein said. Each use of a tool can be compared to each use of a word (each use being differentiated ...
I've been writing in other places, including my Facebook page, and I thought that some of what I wrote would be appropriate here. ____________________...
Well, my opinion is that his whole approach is incorrect. Of course I'm not a fan of Descartes. It is my point, but Descartes analysis is not the same...
What? Descartes was confused about the whole notion of doubting. For those of you who haven't already, study On Certainty (Wittgenstein's final notes)...
The idea that one would need a proof to convince oneself that you exist, is ridiculous, better yet, it's just nonsense. How would a doubt about your o...
Saying some of the same things again, from a slightly different angle. If Wittgenstein is correct about meaning, viz., that it’s a rule-based use that...
Of course there are exceptions where we need to verify someone's account of things, but my point is, that there are many instance of knowing that don'...
If I explain what's in my backyard, isn't that most likely a good explanation of what's in my yard, or do you need to test it. There are plenty of goo...
Getting back to the reason this thread was started, which had to do with the idea or belief that knowing can be something coming from within, i.e., it...
Looking again at the matter of rule-following, and its importance in determining how a word is used, and how use is related to meaning. This must be s...
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