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§137 This one's a bit oblique, but as I can make out, it tries to address an objection posed to §136. The objection works by trying to draw an analogy...

Stellar post. I think the focus on necessity is exactly right, and is missed by many who take Witty to be just engaging is some kind of linguistic ant...

BGE is a particularly tough work because of its disjoint composition; it's hard to say what the book is really about - not because it isn't about anyt...

Yeah, Cavell finds Witty attentive to the threat of scepticism, as something that always looms and that sometimes comes to the fore; but he sees scept...

§136 @"Luke" is exactly right to say that the distinction between fitting and belonging is what organises this section, and I'll only add that the tho...

This is true. Better abolish sexed bathrooms.

I hope so. The next step would be to dismantle the equally silly distinction between ontology and epistemology that's supposed to apply to Wittgenstei...

Ew, ew, ew. Why is anybody here talking about 'mind' independence (or dependence) in relation to Witty? As if one of the virtues of Witty's work were ...

Well it generally helps to have a basic mastery of the grammar, at a bare minimum, of what it is you're trying to critique. And it's hard to tell if i...

Not even 'all is lanaguage-games' makes sense; nor language-games 'limiting' anything. No one, least of all Witty, would say either. The grammar here ...

Because it tries to insinuate a stupid distinction between 'language-games' and 'scientific realism' that is senseless and inattentive to what languag...

Everytime 'language-game' is equated with (just/mere/only a) convention, a small kitten dies. This thread is a feline mass grave, and all of you are k...

Lol the US has never given a shit about privacy, as a certain set of Snowden leaks will tell anyone. And yes, if you refuse to give them passwords the...

Yeah I agree, I was just trying to point out that the problem is even worse - quantifiably doubly so - once suicides are taken into account.

One thing to note about gun deaths in the US is that by far the majority of such deaths are not caused by homicide, but suicide, which account for alm...

:up: Yes, great point. There's an anti-Platonism here right at the level of questions asked, which is just where it ought to be.

Back to regular programming after a bunch of senseless bullshit - §135 If §134 casts doubt on the idea of a 'general form' of the proposition, §135 es...

Ah yes, why isn't anyone talking about America's long-standing disembowelment problem? To say nothing of its disporportate rate of beheadings!

Well the plague doesn't exist any more so disease is not really an issue either see. But honestly, why is anyone talking about right-wing terrorism an...

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Ooh its just black people. Whole bunch of poor people too. That's OK then.

Ok buddy.

No other comparable country is even in the ballpark of murderousness as the US when it comes to firearms; it is a distinctly, disgustingly American pr...

I've been asked this in Australia by an American as well. I found it an insane question.

No, I mean none of these. You don't have a handle on what you're talking about. The distinctions you draw are wrong. The questions you ask are ill for...

Meaningless.

Yes but that would be silly.

*shrug*. I like ostracizing racists. I enjoy supporters of paedophilia being denied their jobs. I like bigots being shamed into depression and the occ...

'Just words'. Oh dear.

These people. They claim to value speech. So long as it remains toothless. They don't care one jot for speech. They want to suck it dry.

lmao.

Like "you're fired". Speech.

People want free speech without concequences, apparently.

And my point is that every language-game does this. I've said this multiple times now. I'll not say it again. You have a very shallow view of language...

There is 'something different' about every language-game. Every language-game has a purpose or a point to which it is keyed, and there are as many lan...

Oh not at all, I too, consider overreactions to equine homophobia to be an existential threat to Western Civilisation. It is a Very Important Problem.

'More complex'; ' immensely ratcheted up capacities'; 'something different': these are all so many ways of saying nothing at all: what complexity? Wha...

Ah yes, the mass persecution of equine homophobia. A perfectly reasonable account for the for the rise of the right.

The same way the language-games of literally anything else 'hits upon' the 'realities' they are adequate to. It's as if someone were to ask: 'how is i...

I couldn't care less, you're wasting my time.

No, one can't, that's my point: that it's a total, utter misreading to think this. One might put the point this way: the PI stands as one of the most ...

B-b-b-b-ut I can't make tasteless jokes anymore and that's the most important thing!

§134 Thus begin's Witty's explicit attack on the 'general form of the propositon', identified in the TLP as 'This is how things are'. The first thing ...

Some relevant passages from Stanley Cavell Claim of Reason, which I've been quoting incessantly, which might be useful here: On necessity: "It is not ...

Oh come on this is the longest of long stretches to stretch. At least be honest and say that you just wondered in here from your own recent concerns a...

Three points: First, does your post have anything to do with the passages we're currently reading? If so, which passages? If not, why are you posting ...

Sophisticat is right that this thread is nothing but an appeal to incredulity.

:up: " reject the common sop that somehow the indeterminism of quantum physics helps us out here. First, there is no evidence that the neurons of the ...

Is the OP anything more than a linguistic quibble? It reads: 'people call life this. I think we should call life that instead'. But then, nothing is s...

§133 §133 can be read as a conclusion to the whole section that began around §88 or so, and it does so by bringing out the stakes of much of the discu...