Why? Because consciousness is the source of everything, and it's what unifies everything. There, I just gave you what will someday be one of the great...
I'm not sure I'm clear on what you mean by "knowing?" Part of the problem may just be that you think knowing X means that you have complete certainty ...
I would say that it is a sufficient condition, i.e., that generally we can trust our watches and our senses. However, we also know that whether we are...
On page one starting with post #2 I talk about the Tractatus. In the Tractatus the theory of truth is the correspondence theory, or the picture theory...
By the way, I'm starting my own forum. The forum will be mostly on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. I just started it today. https://philosophicalthink...
No, that wasn't his goal, although some might think so based on some of the things he said. I don't agree with your characterization of the TLP or the...
It is true that some bedrock propositions change over time, but not all. For example, Moore's propositions, for the most part will not change, unless ...
This is just Gettier warmed over. There is nothing wrong with the definition of knowledge as JTB. The problem is that believing that one is justified,...
PI 129 I think this paragraph is much more important than just rhetorical bluster. It goes to the heart of much of what he's saying. We often miss the...
I'm sorry MU, but I'm not going to waste my time going back and forth arguing with your private interpretations of Wittgenstein. I think it ruins the ...
The idea in PI 128 is a kind of ideal, i.e., if we were able to apply Wittgenstein's methods (it's not method by the way), then clarity would be achie...
First, let me say that I'm not a religious person, so I'm not trying to defend any particular religion. That said, I think you can make sense of the i...
For Wittgenstein the process (his methods) take us from confusion to enlightenment. "This is reminiscent of a Zen master's procedure: 'Before you have...
Maybe something like the following: Once some of these passages are understood it will not only make clear some of what Wittgenstein is doing, but als...
The main area that I part company with Wittgenstein is in reference to the limit of language. He still believes in the PI that there is a limit, I do ...
I would say that anytime it makes sense to say, "I know I have hands," whether dreaming or not, then it's not a hinge-proposition. Wittgenstein gives ...
It isn't so clear, but it seems that in context it's reminders of (you must have a different translation, mine uses reminders, not recollections) of j...
"The fundamental fact here is that we lay down rules, a technique, for a game, and that then when we follow the rules, thing do not turn out as we had...
What Wittgenstein is talking about on p. 223 has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. No, again it has nothing to do with intuitionalist thought...
I'm repeating myself in a lot of ways, but it helps to re-word some of these ideas to make them a bit clearer. As I've already stated there are two ki...
Actually there are many bedrock beliefs, in fact, too many to list. The examples you give are not bedrock. The following are some... 2+2=4 I have hand...
I would have to agree with Fdrake, i.e., that whether we are talking about the propositions of mathematics or otherwise, both can have an empirical si...
To me, it doesn't make sense to say, "There is really no such thing as 'what Wittgenstein is saying.' I think it's plainly contradictory, at least in ...
I'm saying that it's easy to get so involved in what Wittgenstein is saying that you forget that he's putting forth a method, so it's the method, and ...
In the Tractatus, he is under the mistaken assumption that every proposition must have a definite sense. That a statement must have a fixed sense is r...
There sure isn't anything contradictory in saying that time could be everlasting. You couldn't have time if at some point there was no time. You would...
I thought I would quote something from K. T. Fann's book, Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy. "Wittgenstein himself wished to publish the Tractat...
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