Sam26

I think it's correct to say that existence is not a predicate or a property to be ascribed to individuals such as God, unicorns, Abraham Lincoln, or a...

I don't think there is a yes or no answer to this question. Some language-games are commensurable, and others are not. It seems clear that Wittgenstei...

Well, both of those questions could be asked within the same game. I'm asking if there is some standard by which we can judge the language-game itself...

There doesn't seem to be any absolute standard by which we judge one language-game over another. I don't believe this leads to a kind of relativism as...

Lately I've been trying to answer this question for myself. I've thought of possible answers, but nothing definitive. My problem is that most of my st...

Just a further remark about sense. So, when we think of meaning, think of how a word is used in the language-game that is its home. If for example, we...

Depends on how we're using the term meaningful. In other words, I could use a sentence that isn't meaningful to demonstrate what is meaningful. So, in...

This doesn't seem right, viz., that "I know I have a headache," is necessarily true (not that you're necessarily saying this :smile:). So, the stateme...

I can't seem to get my question across, because people keep telling me what I already know. I'll chalk it up to my inability to convey my question in ...

Of course it depends on the language-game being played. The meaning of a word IS its use in a language-game. Obviously there are various kinds of lang...

I have no doubt about that, but I'm wondering if it's a problem. It doesn't seem to be easily resolvable.

You've missed my whole point. I guess I didn't explain it well enough. :lol:

Language-games I believe that Wittgenstein’s methods in the PI are important, and at least for me, I see him applying his methods in OC. He points out...

Insanity is coming here everyday thinking you'll find answers. :worry:

So, what's your point, and how does this lead to me recanting or reconsidering what I said. I've read enough of Wittgenstein to know that he had a mys...

I'm joking. Geez. Can't you tell by my body language?

No, I literally threw up. :groan: Extreme or not, I find their interpretation of W. to be very problematic to say the least.

I was going to post a paper I wrote, but decided to wait. Instead I would like to evaluate a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0j3uoH_-A8) in wh...

Of course "...epistemology is not the only way things make sense: are meaningful, ," and I would never imply this. The point was, you don't know you'r...

Mostly, it's giving the concept know, no sense, as opposed to the wrong sense. What I mean is, it has no epistemological sense to say, "I know I have ...

I'm surprised no one commented on your comment, which is very important in terms of the use of the word know. Moreover, the negation of, "I know I hav...

The point of course would be, how you could you tell the mental state apart from a programmed response? I don't think, in theory, you could.

Yes, and this is why I said, "...they lack the internal subjective experiences of a real self," which was meant to mean they are not conscious. It's d...

One possible answer, is that the zombie is just programmed to say these kinds of things. If, for example, our reality is a kind of program of sorts, t...

I definitely don't agree with this, but I'm not going to get into this right now. However, I will respond to the following: I've been studying two sub...

Suppose someone told you this about engineering. I'm a lazy person and a lazy engineer. If you're a lazy engineer, then you're probably not a good eng...

I keep hearing some scientists and philosophers claim that consciousness is an illusion. This has to be one of the silliest claims I've heard. Having ...

"Can we live in doubt?" It depends on what you mean by "...live in doubt?" I'm going to repeat some of what @"Banno" said, because we are largely in a...

So, it's one thing to correct someone who moves the rook the wrong way on a chess board, but it's quite another thing to correct someone who throws th...

It's just another kind of Gettier problem, and I believe Gettier is just wrong about this. Believing one is justified, is not the same as being justif...

Ya, I see what you're saying. That's probably a better way to say it.

I'm not sure I follow your point in terms of what I was saying. It seems that the rule and the use go hand-in-hand. The pawn in chess would would be q...

If I understand @"StreetlightX," his contention is that a language-game is analogous to a chess game, i.e., you're either playing chess or not. To say...

Ya, that's a good point.

It's their attempt at a language-game. It would be like playing chess, but not understanding all the moves correctly. It appears to be the game of che...

Let me give you an example. I was arguing with some religious people recently, and their epistemological language-game was such that they have knowled...

All I'm saying is that you can't just create any language-game, and then suppose that you have somehow meant something by your words. This doesn't mak...

No, I'm not saying that there are correct uses that stand outside of language-games, that's definitely not correct. I'm saying that not all language-g...

So, I'm arguing semantics, I suppose that's meant to mean that it's trivial, or that I'm avoiding the point you're making. Incorrect use,would be, ".....

It can't be useless. For example, if there were no inner experience of pain, then there would be no language of pain, no outward sign. It depends, I g...

I would definitely disagree with this assessment of the PI, viz., that "incorrect use makes no sense in the context of the PI." First, my point in poi...

There is no way to know if our inner experiences are the same except through our common reactions to these experiences. It's our cries coupled with la...

So, essentially you're saying it's like a brain that's biologically alive, but shows no evidence of consciousness, because all that makes it conscious...

What's "...consciousness that isn't conscious of anything" If your conscious, then being aware (in some way) is a necessary feature of consciousness. ...

I agree, that an implausible claim undermines the witness making the claim. I will go a step further, and say, that a claim given by a group of people...

Nothing personal, I just don't want to keep repeating myself.

I'm not going to argue about this issue. It's been argued about a millions times in this forum.

I agree, language can be friend or foe depending on your understanding of how language works. I don't think that language is used to give us mental pi...

I said you have to be a bit more precise, not exact. In language, sometimes a blurry image is just what we need. However, in this case, if you're corr...

Meaning is not use. You have to be a bit more precise. And, why would you wonder if we could do philosophy without language. Of course we couldn't. It...