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Yes, I understand that, but what I said still holds. For example, let's say that I see what I think are five red barns in a field at time T1. I justif...

There are causal beliefs. For example, my belief that snakes are dangerous was caused by the bite of the snake. But I would take issue with the idea t...

Yes, we seem to agree here, providing you're using ground as a synonym for justification, as I am. Which seems to be another way of saying the followi...

This idea that Gettier somehow showed that JTB is flawed is just not the case. It's as if Gettier performed a slight of hand, and people think it's an...

Wow, we are far apart on this one. :gasp:

Thanks Janus for your thoughts, your post is in keeping with the spirit of this thread. I was looking for both thoughts I agreed with and disagreed wi...

That's funny.

Good luck Mcdoodle on your masters. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I'm 68, in just a few days. Keep thinking it's good for the brain. M...

Well, Wittgenstein did believe that much of what passes as philosophy is just misunderstandings of the logic of language. This is seen from the Tracta...

The confusion may be in the following: I learn through the language-game of epistemology, i.e., what it means to justify a belief. Once I learn it in ...

I don't believe so.

I hope in my writings I haven't given that impression. Although at times it might appear that that's my view.

You do, don't you!? :wink:

Well said, I concur wholeheartedly.

I'm wondering what philosophers have thought this? I know that in Wittgenstein's early writings (The Tractatus) he believed that the major problems of...

I definitely will suspend belief when it comes to these statements. :gasp:

Who's Stove? Later: Oh, now I remember. DUH

The primary reason for creating this thread was to get people to expose their own thinking on the importance of philosophy of language. It may be that...

Thanks Blue Lux, for the most part I'm looking for what people have learned, and your post is in keeping with the spirit of my thread.

I went through that link rather fast, but it seems to be the writings of a skeptic, in terms of what we think we know. After all there are many ways w...

Maybe you could expand a bit on this, and on any of the comments made in that post.

When I talk about philosophy of language I'm referring to a Wittgensteinian process, for the most part. Although I sometimes use linguistics to refer ...

Ya, this is a rather broad topic, but don't hold back.

Language seems foundational in some sense to philosophy, as per StreetlightX's comment, but then moves on as we learn to use it in these other subject...

I'm wondering how much we can agree on within the scope of philosophy of language. I'm trying to take this thread in a different direction from the ty...

Nice post, I'm always looking for ways to debunk my own ideas. It's so easy to get into a rut about a particular way of thinking, i.e., it's easy to g...

This doesn't seem to fit the Wittgenstein I know, although I can see how you might think this from some of what he said. Wittgenstein definitely belie...

Yes, this is why I think philosophy of language is so important, and this seems to me to be a very important discovery about the philosophy of languag...

Your post is the kind of post I'm looking for, i.e., the ideas that you gleaned from Wittgenstein. Some of you may have a different perspective, so it...

This seems, although I'm not sure, to go along with Wittgenstein's foundational ideas, or what appear to be foundational ideas.

Can you give an example of what you mean.

Yes, I would definitely agree with this.

This sounds like something Wittgenstein would say, viz., that ethics is to be found in the deed.

Is this a quote of Wittgenstein's - "Philosophy is only descriptive, its purpose therapeutic. The only problem to be solved is that of the human psych...

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If you want to know what I would disagree with, it would be the above statement. There are many psychological ramifications of what Wittgenstein said,...

Your right, it's very difficult to make time to study some of this material, especially since there is just so much to study. All I have time for is a...

Thanks for the post, Posty. I'm always interested in hearing how others interpret or use Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Obviously not, but Wittgenstein goes much much further than this, and it's this wide view that Wittgenstein deals with over the course of his life. I ...

I don't follow this, specifically, "it belongs to a wider set of practices and capacities which must also be grasped in their specificity."

I'm a fan of JTB, and we can trace it back to ancient philosophy, but yes, it does apply to philosophical problems across the board, and throughout hi...

The rule-following as I interpret Wittgenstein isn't extra-linguistic, i.e., he's saying that rule-following is a necessary feature of language. And i...

To answer your first question, the issue I've been working on, viz., parts of the epistemological issues get solved. However, solving the issue doesn'...

I agree with this, but I think many people don't understand the "get clear on language" part, what does that mean via Wittgenstein and Austin for exam...

Maybe my emphasis on Wittgenstein is overblown. If you think that, then explain why, but don't do it if you don't understand Wittgenstein.

I like this Tim, maybe you can explain further.

I think we're getting bogged down into arguing over the same issues, and that's not what I was looking for. I guess I'm looking for more thought provo...

I agree with much of what you're saying, but they're are many definitions (I would say uses) of the word time, that cause confusion. And the way I def...

These kinds of problems sometimes get solved in other ways besides the ones that I might suggest. I hope that you don't think that I would suggest tha...

I've written heavily on this subject in many of threads (e.g. A Wittgenstein Commentary), but yes, I can see how someone might not understand what in ...