More about On Certainty... Philosophers and others want to confine epistemology to their particular theory, which tends to confine the meaning of know...
With regard to On Certainty it seems clear to me that Moore was using "I know..." within a context," but using the words incorrectly, as Wittgenstein ...
The best way to understand the rules of language is to think of how children learn to use different words. For example, using the ostensive definition...
I haven't encountered Bryant before, so my response was based on what you wrote. I didn't fully grasp his idea of framing. I agree that the way I fram...
I think I agree with Pseudonym about Bryant's philosophy. All this seems to say is that one is looking at philosophy from one's own frame of reference...
Yes, we learn what a belief is by what we observe, what we speak, and what is written. There are many observable actions that we correlate with belief...
Part of the problem is trying to simplify things into a neat theory, that's what's problematic. I don't think reducing it to an "explanation" would he...
Good question, and to be honest, I'm not sure. My opinion is that there is something wrong with this principle. From the SEP: "A simple formulation of...
Whether or not a belief is unfalsifiable depends on the argument for the belief. One cannot simply list certain beliefs and say, these are unfalsifiab...
An interesting short paper worth reading that has some bearing on this in terms of causes vs reasons is the following: https://is.muni.cz/repo/989715/...
While it is true that how we use words tells us something about meaning, and you're right to focus on use, it's also important, though, to understand ...
Hallucinations tend to be person relative, i.e., how is it a hallucination if people are seeing the same things. What makes something a hallucination ...
The word anecdotal carries with it the idea of not being reliable, i.e., a story that may or may not be true. However, can we use the word anecdotal w...
I can see how you might think this, but it really doesn't tell us anything. In other words, it doesn't get us anywhere. I could say this about any vir...
While happiness may be important in our overall well-being, it has nothing to do with whether Bob is making sense when he associates the Holy Spirit w...
Many Christians fall into the mistake of associating meaning with private sensation or private experiences. For example, many will often associate som...
I think the best way to understand much of what's been said in this thread, and in other threads is to have a good understanding of Wittgenstein's PI....
That's fine, but I think this idea of meaning that you have has been thoroughly debunked by Wittgenstein. It's not even close Hanover. No, I'm not say...
For me Hanover this is where so many people go wrong. I see this error being made in a variety of contexts, especially religious contexts. It also ari...
All I'm saying is that the concept belief should be looked at in terms of how it's used in language, which include language-games, and in turn gives u...
Some words are used to refer to objects, but not all words, and since many words refer to objects, the tendency is for us to look for something that c...
From my perspective, unraveling the confusion, my own as well, has to do with understanding the Philosophical Investigations. The problem is that some...
That's definitely an in depth article on the nature of a proposition. Most of my time is devoted to reading and trying to understand Wittgenstein. I h...
We run into this kind of thing on the internet all the time. People who tell you are wrong, when they know little about the subject matter. It would b...
Oh no, definitely not, and you're one of those who definitely fits that description. I'll continue moaning about people who think they know something,...
So Frank, you think I don't know what I'm talking about, because you find some error in wording. If that was the case none of us could make a claim to...
Yes, yes, the wording was wrong. I often make mistakes. I've made plenty of them, believe me. Besides I love raising the smug quotient it's fun, and j...
The following gets to the point I'm making Banno... "'But you surely cannot deny that, for example, in remembering, an inner process takes place.' - W...
The use of the word statement is much broader in scope than the use of the word proposition. A statement can be a proposition, for example, "The earth...
The following is something I want to put in my thread A Wittgenstein Commentary, but it has important implications for what's being said here too. In ...
I'm not sure what your background is, but when philosophers use the term proposition, they're referring to a particular kind of statement, viz., one t...
I wouldn't deny that there is mental activity going on in all language users, what I would deny is that how we use words in language, and the associat...
It's not inadequate, inadequate to whom? And what is inadequate here? You seem to want to get to the essence of the belief. Here's how I see what we'r...
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