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I would agree with that.

I think it's contradictory to say that time had to start. I say this because change is analytic to time, i.e., time is simply the measurement of chang...

You can think of statements as if they are pieces of a puzzle, they will only fit where they are meant to fit, and if you force them into places where...

Yes, I believe we are in agreement.

My view of OC 348 is that statements get their meaning from correct context, that is, not just any context, which is why, it seems, Wittgenstein said,...

This is why I said that "some" of what I said pertains to 109,110, and 111. I'm looking at what Wittgenstein says from a wide range of his texts, not ...

Where did I say any of that?

We have to be careful, which I fell prey to in some of my analysis of On Certainty, that we don't turn the exegesis of the PI into the kind of analysi...

This is some of what I extract from PI 109, 110, 111. We get in a muddle due to our need to be precise, that is, we want to turn our philosophical ide...

I wouldn't go as far as Banno, although I do think much of philosophy is just bulls***. It's true that Wittgenstein told many of his friends who were ...

If you're asking this in reference to the Tractatus, the answer is, I believe, yes, that is, even a vague proposition in the Tractatus had a very prec...

In the Tractatus Wittgenstein sees language in very precise terms, that is, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the names within a propositio...

Good point Streetlight. This is why it's difficult to develop a theory that fits Wittgenstein's ideas, that is, there are too many variables involved....

Almost everything you believe was arrived at through the testimony of others. When you read a book that's testimony, when you sit in a class that's te...

Much of this depends on what it means to know, so it's an epistemological question. As such, it depends on what you count as good evidence. Many peopl...

Neither religion or atheism are good world views. Both of them are incorrect, and both tend to be too dogmatic about their beliefs. Moreover, both vie...

In my studies of NDEs this subject comes up frequently. People often report that they are aware of living other lives. I do not like the term reincarn...

If she was genuinely fearful for whatever cause or reason that doesn't amount to racism. However, there is no way to know what's going on in her head....

Wittgenstein never thought that there could be a perfect language. Russell thought that Witgenstein was trying to construct a perfect language in the ...

Ya, and if we look throughout history it's the people with the low IQ's who have corrected the Newton's, the Beethoven's, the Einstein's, and the Plat...

If we think of this in chess terms, it's like comparing a 1600 rating with someone who is rated 2700 or above. We don't have a clue. We think we do, b...

It's interesting that even Wittgenstein couldn't remember what he had in mind in certain passages. So, the fact that we can't quite grasp what Wittgen...

There is a kind of foundationalism in On Certainty, but it's not traditional foundationalism. It's a foundationalism driven by language-games and cont...

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It seems like this thread is just an argument with MU.

What I'm saying is that use in itself doesn't always determine meaning. If that was the case, then how would we be able to determine that someone was ...

I'm not saying that there aren't problematic ideas within Wittgenstein's thinking. No method, not even Wittgenstein's, will solve every problem, but h...

MU, what you're saying goes way beyond what I'm saying, so don't equate the two.

I know that most of us agree that Wittgenstein wants us to see meaning or sense in terms of use, but I think it's a mistake to say that meaning equate...

If you think Wittgenstein is incorrect, then it doesn't apply.

I think it's important, as we think about what Wittgenstein is saying, to think about how we as individuals make these kinds of mistakes in our own th...

§69 Wittgenstein keeps saying the same things, only from different angles. It seems that philosophers and others get hung up on the form of the propos...

In my Wittgenstein Commentary thread I start out by talking about the Tractatus in general terms. You can read some of my comments there.

We can always start a thread on the Tractatus.

I don't find anything to disagree with here, at least not in this statement. I'm very familiar with the Tractatus and what it says.

Yes, but it depends on what you mean by his ontology. If you mean his analysis of how propositions connect with the world, and the limits he puts on l...

I'm not saying that it's the same method or the same kind of logic. His understanding of the role of logic in language is much different in the PI.

Your point seems to be a distinction without a difference. When I speak of the logic of our language I'm talking about grammar, rules, use, and finall...

§66 This paragraph reminds me of the courts trying to come up with a definition of pornography. A definition should be seen more as a guide than some ...

He's not saying that you can't learn how to use certain words by referring to things or objects. We teach children all the time by pointing to things ...

Part of the problem with philosophers and probably with thinkers in general is that we want exactness, we want some final analysis that will answer ou...

I hope these interpretations are just Hacker and Baker interpretations. I know I don't use Hacker and Baker, most of my interpretations are my own.

I feel the same way you do about 58. I've read it several times, and I still feel as though I'm missing something. It's probably just about use, as op...

Thanks Fdrake, but for some reason my writing lately has been piss poor. I can't put my thoughts down very well. Help, I'm getting old.

§60 Wittgenstein continues in 60 to repudiate that the sense or meaning of a proposition/concept/word is somehow enlightened by some deeper analysis, ...

You're right to point this out. The paradigm is the color or the yard stick that the name refers to.

I agree, and this is very important in so many areas of our thinking. It has particular importance in our understanding of epistemology.

"A name signifies only what is an element of reality (PI 59)," is not him going back because he is at some "dead end." He is continuing with his analy...

§58 If the meaning of a word is not tied to an object, paradigm, sample, memory, or any other object (mental or otherwise), then it seems to follow th...