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Thank you for your response and for highlighting Gödel’s Platonism, which is a crucial aspect of his philosophical framework. I agree that Gödel, as a...

I'll start by answering a pertinent question from @"Vera Mont." The paper explores why we can know things at all by connecting two big ideas: Wittgens...

Those kinds of experiences are not unusual. Get better!

Hope you're feeling better Jack.

I tried to do something no one has done before with Wittgenstein's hinges; whether I accomplished it or not is another question. I can understand why ...

Exactly

Me, write the Wittgenstein essay, that's crazy, I hate Wittgenstein!

Oh, the old “brain's house memory, it’s proven!” chestnut from @"Hanover", and @"180 Proof’s" special pleading accusation. I love it, and I will deal ...

Yes, that's true, but beyond that, I'm trying to solve or answer a fundamental problem about consciousness. Is it just limited to the brain? I believe...

If you give it some thought, it very seldom happens that you convince people who are entrenched in their beliefs. This is especially true in politics ...

To be honest, I find the objections in this thread to be very weak, so there's not much to overcome. That said, I do address many of these objections,...

I have completed the rough draft of my book (ebook), which I'll probably sell on Amazon for $5.99 within the next 90 days. I don't have a confirmed ti...

The answers to the questions of this thread aren't dependent on metaphysics. I'm not juxtaposing anything, i.e., the argument is meant to stand on its...

I'm definitely not a fan of Descartes, so I agree. Descartes begins by doubting everything, until he arrives at the cogito ("I think, therefore I am")...

You raise an important point, doubt does arise spontaneously, and not everyone experiences certainty in the same way. I agree that the question "What ...

"What is real? How do we know what is real?" This is one of those questions that can’t be answered in the way most people expect. It’s not that there’...

Here's another simple way to explain Wittgenstein's hinges. Imagine opening a door; you don't ask yourself if the hinges will do their job by holding ...

Comments on Gettier I claim that the Gettier problem is a philosophical non-issue, driven by the semantic confusion of conflating subjective certainty...

Ya, that was meant for Bob Ross and it's part of the title of the thread.

I have no idea what "finite sins" are; no one talks like this. If you want to argue against eternal or everlasting punishment (depending on your view ...

Here is a more detailed definition of bedrock beliefs or bedrock convictions, aka hinges. Hinges are layered, arational foundational convictions share...

Forget the Tractatus, it has nothing to do with any of this. Some of this is my own extrapolations from OC, but I believe it follows. OC is an unfinis...

We can talk about prelinguistic truth in terms of facts by understanding facts as states of affairs that are separate from language, similar to the li...

Here's a rough definition of hinges. Hinges are layered, arational (arational because they are not subject to the rational processes of justification,...

What makes Moorean propositions ("Here is one hand.") a hinge, according to Wittgenstein, is their status as bedrock certainties. This particular bedr...

Point 1: You seem to agree that truth is more than a propositional notion, tied to our actions, which aligns with Wittgenstein’s meaning as use (PI 43...

It is my position that Wittgenstein is offering a more nuanced view of truth that is embedded in our subjective certainties, practices, and language u...

I see truth as more than propositional truth. I don't think we'll get passed this disagreement.

You're going a bit too far. My point is that when referring to truth, Wittgenstein is not only thinking in terms of traditional propositions. He appli...

Hinges are layered. Some hinges, the most basic kind, like "The Earth has existed for more than ten minutes," must be accepted to even have a language...

A hinge is never doubted, or it wouldn't be a hinge.

You don't follow the post where I referred to OC 205, 206? I'll try to clarify. I understand that you want to use OC 205 to support your position, viz...

I made an error/typo in the first sentence. It should read, "OC 205 seems to indicate that the true/false idea shouldn't be used with hinges, but agai...

@"Banno" @"RussellA" @"Josh" OC 205 seems to indicate that the true/false idea shouldn't be used with hinges, but again, he's talking about traditiona...

It's logically impossible to doubt that you exist. Doubting your existence shows your existence. :grin:

Wittgenstein is not referring to traditional theories of truth - like the correspondence (matches reality) or coherence theories (fits within a system...

I'm not sure I haven't read Frege's account. I suspect that it might be similar in some respects but dissimilar in others. I'm guessing.

The T-sentence assumes a proposition’s truth is about whether the content matches reality, but hinges aren’t evaluated like that. In OC 205, Wittgenst...

@"RussellA" @"Josh" How Are Hinges True? Hinge propositions, like the earth has existed for more than ten minutes or "I have two hands” —aren’t true i...

There is support, but there is also seeing where his notes are leading us. I've said this before, but let me repeat it. There are two language games o...

Well, we disagree. I think this position is clear and a common misinterpretation of OC.

I can see how you might think they're contradictory, but I'm making a subtle distinction about truth, which I believe Wittgenstein is also making. Hin...

Ya, but not in the way I'm presenting this issue. I can't find anywhere where someone makes this connection, but I could be wrong.

Here's my abstract for my upcoming paper. Wittgenstein's Hinges Reimagined Abstract Ludwig Wittgenstein’s (1889-1951) final notes were published posth...

There are a lot of nuances to use as meaning (ostensive definitions, family resemblance, etc), but use is king in the PI. Language users determine use...

First, it might sound simple (i.e., that you're reducing meaning to something simple) saying that use is meaning, but Wittgenstein spent quite a bit o...

Meaning is primarily driven by use. Even dictionary definitions are driven by use. A word might have many different meanings, depending on how many us...

It's the world of hinges. By the way, I might submit a paper as part of the Philosophy Forum's paper challenge. I'm not sure yet, but I'm working on i...

I don't think anything I can say will convince you. I've explained it six ways to Sunday. For example, I don't know how many times I've said that hing...

Where did I say that?