Sam26

I've been saying I want to move on since page 8. I guess you also know my intentions too. Good God man grow up and quit stomping your feet because you...

I want to start a new thread on something other than Witt but haven't decided on what yet.

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I want to point out where the published scholarship actually stands, because it doesn't lean in @"Fooloso4" direction. I haven't found anyone who hold...

Well, I just saw that last post and I'll give my response. Oh my God, the "I have a PhD argument." This is what it's really about, you've mentioned th...

Okay folks time to move on to something else. Thanks for the posts.

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@"Banno" says, "What the hell is going on!!"

If you want to exclusively talk about hinges, then start a thread. This thread is broader than that.

I did consider that objection and so haven't other scientists. I believe I dealt with almost every objection at one time or another. I've been researc...

Witt said, "some propositions are as it were like hinges" and "the mathematical proposition is a hinge" aren't philosophical propositions in the sense...

I think of it this way. Moore says, "I know I have two hands" and treats it as an empirical knowledge claim, as if he's reporting a finding that prove...

Your post is helpful. It's interesting to look at what Witt says in the following sequence. OC 401, propositions of the form of empirical propositions...

I want to respond to @"Fooloso4" post to the audience of this thread. This post actually helps my case, not @"Fooloso4", and I don't think he's able o...

I don't want to turn this thread into a referendum on hinges. The thread is much wider in its scope. Two things: First, you say my examples "turn out ...

The reading that hinges are restricted to scientific investigations is obviously incorrect to anyone who spends some time reading OC. I wouldn't care ...

It's a good question, but at any given moment, the proposition 12x12=144 is either functioning as a hinge or it's not. When we're checking a calculati...

You're right that "I am called L.W." is personal. If it turns out nobody is called L.W., arithmetic still works, physics still holds. I'll drop "hinge...

I need to be blunt here because you've walked into a contradiction and you're not seeing it. Your stance in this thread has been read Witt on his own ...

Let me clarify some earlier remarks. The mathematical proposition and "I am called L.W." both stand fast, but they stand fast in different ways, and t...

Let me quote you back in your own words so I’m not shadowboxing: “I have been getting pushback on the claim that hinges have their place in our scient...

I largely agree with those statements.

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I think your reading is too rigid. You treat “hinge” as one uniform class, basically “officially immovable” like Witt’s mathematical case, and then yo...

This is interesting because OC 470–475 is practically tailor made for the dispute we've been having, i.e., whether hinges are “scientific propositions...

You’re overreading Witt by turning a clarifying point into a definition, and by treating “incontrovertible” as if it names a fixed epistemic point. Ye...

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That's a strange thing to say. My reply would be that your actions in the world contradict this.

You’re overreading Witt when you say he “concludes hinges are incontrovertible” and that hinges “belong to scientific investigations” which makes them...

Although there are other aspects of Witt's toolbox that could be added, I think I'm going to move on. I want to start a new thread, but I'm not sure o...

I think you're a bit confused about Witt, but so aren't most people.

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I'm not sure what you need to be "worried" about. I've been consistent that the point isn't to establish separate jurisdictions. When I say cognitive ...

I've been working on a better definition of philosophy, and I thought I'd post it here just as an aside. Philosophy is the fundamental and inescapable...

I don't think we're makiing progress, which is usually what happens in Witt threads. At a certain point, we just keep saying the same thing over and o...

and others. I want to speak to something that keeps happening in this thread, because it's a good example of the very confusion Witt's tools are meant...

You’re raising a bunch of issues, and they get tangled because “form of life,” “hinge,” and “worldview” are being treated as if they’re the same kind ...

Tool 14: Aspect Seeing, “Now I see it as…” Aspect seeing is Witt’s tool for showing that a picture can be seen as different descriptions/things, it's ...

I agree with most of that. Different registers, legal, technical, pub talk, all have their own standards, and Witt’s “use” point fits that well. There...

I think this seriously understates what hinges are doing in OC, and it also makes two points that don’t hold up. First, hinges aren’t just a “correcti...

I don’t think that’s right, and the regress you set up is a good way to see why. If rules were “nothing but social agreements,” then you really would ...

I'm changing my paper from a conservative defense of JTB into something more innovative. Instead of "I'm clarifying what was always implicit," it now ...

Tool 13: Forms of Life “Form of life” is Witt’s name for the shared human background that makes language possible. It’s not a theory, and it’s not a s...

I think we agree the Augustinian picture captures something, and Witt grants that. Words are sometimes taught by pointing. The mistake is to treat “wo...

You’re right about the PI 217 passage, bedrock there is about the end of justification, my spade is turned because justificatory digging ended, not be...

Tool 12: Language on holiday One of Wittgenstein’s most useful tools is noticing when a word has stepped out of its ordinary work. We're using the wor...

You’re right to raise the question, viz., that hinges are “always true” or a priori in the traditional sense. That’s not what I meant. A hinge isn’t a...

When Wittgenstein warns against “occult” or “mysterious” inner items, he’s not talking about the supernatural. He means a theoretical position that’s ...

I mostly agree, but I’d clarify couple of points. I think Chomsky’s critique is about what an empirical science should count as its object, whereas Wi...

I definitely don’t believe shared meaning is an illusion, at least not globally. The fact that we successfully correct each other, teach children, tra...