Yes, in Christianity, you can have boys on Earth, at the alter. Reward minus the waiting time. Two can play cultural pissing contest. The game itself,...
Has anyone linked to the Daily Nous 'response by physcists' post yet? (Did a quick scan, couldn't see anything) : http://dailynous.com/2019/03/21/phil...
One can think oneself a flowerpot and not be a flowerpot. That's not a contradiction. That's being wrong. In any case, Witty simply had a narrow, thin...
§104: One predicates of the thing what lies in the mode of representation. We take the possibility of comparison, which impresses us, as the perceptio...
Ah yes, the same 'morally superior' west that has continued to ardently support some of the most wicked regimes in the Muslim world, allowing them to ...
Like every other undertaker of philosophy, Wittgenstein was buried by it, and it will continue to bury those like him. In any case, Wittgenstein was a...
I mean, if one really wants a distillation of the Wittgenstienian approach to rules it really ought to be something like: 'What does the rule do? Look...
This is a muddle. Witty never speaks about 'rules of use'. You won't even find the three words, in that order, in the text. There's good reason for th...
I very much dislike readings of Wittgenstein which equate him with saying that language is a 'rule governed activity'. There is a sense in which this ...
§100-§103 More attempts to shore up how Witty's sense of perfection can quite easily abide by indeterminancy and vagueness. Strong theme of how the id...
§99 If §98 tried to rescue a sense of perfection divorced from an ideal (where an ideal has the sense of a fixed 'essence' of langauge), §99 tries to ...
§98 So, beyond the critique of the Tractatus that looms over this section (§89 onward), another unwavering thematic thread here is a critique of ideal...
§93-§97 I'm sure it's been mentioned (I know @"Banno" has), but the next few sections cannot be understood outside of the context of a self-critqiue o...
Quick personal note: to say that an exhaustive analysis of grammar would not yield a 'final account' of propositions, of language, etc, amounts also t...
§92 §92 deals, somewhat, with the metaphorics associated with the misunderstanding detailed in §91, contrasting 'depth' and 'surface', and associating...
§91 §91 aims to head off a possible misunderstanding that §89 and §90 might foster: the idea that the 'understanding' gained by grammatical investigat...
§90 §90 continues to trade on the distinction between facts and logic introduced in §89, and firmly situates Witty's 'grammatical' investigations on t...
I need to catch up to and for @"Banno": §89 §89 marks the beginning of a whole new line of discussion which deals with what Witty calls 'philosophy', ...
Might be posting quite a few passages from Cavell in the next few weeks; On pain and words: "Utterances are expressions of it: "I know I'm in pain", "...
And 'objective' comes from the latin objectivus, which was used in the exact opposite way in which it is used now, because Kant fucked things up for e...
I was thinking how to reply to this but I think Rovelli's presentation here is better than what I'd be able to come up with: "If different observers g...
Yes, and an observation in a quantum process is a record by an instrument. Your 'point' is to equivocate on this and worm some horseshit in about 'the...
No shit, but that's nothing but a contingent fact that has nothing to do with the process of 'registration' itself; you may as well say, if there were...
If by 'this context' you mean Wheeler, there is no point, not a single mention - quote it, I fucking dare you - at which Wheeler even remotely refers ...
Which one's the ad hom? Pointing out a basic logical fallacy? Noting that you consistently and maliciously skew Bhor's meaning so as to impute to him ...
Tertium non datur. Bohr at least was not so juvenile as to think that the latter conclusion ("all boils down to 'mind-independence") at all follows fr...
So it could serve as a rhetorical crutch for charlatans to muddy the waters when utterly incapable of having a discussion grounded in the science, cle...
Which is fine and dandy, except your position is as far removed from Heisenberg's as can be: you're not arguing from some position of epistemological ...
...yet another exhibition of Wayfarer's attempt to assasinate language for his equivocal woo: as if the attempt to unduly restrict 'observation' to no...
Well, this is a dedicated space for this kind of discussion for one ... and also discussions on facebook are trash as a matter of definition. A waste ...
If you're not being sarcastic, that's good to hear! Just got back from a month overseas holiday and now I'm sad, lol. In the meantime, here's somethin...
Philosophy reaches so many different conclusions because each philosopher proceeds from different questions. The questions of Plato are not the questi...
Well the thread doesn’t seemed to have moved too far forward so hopefully I’ll be able to catch up now that I’m back from my being away. Gonna post so...
It's one of my favourite books, but it took me a long, long time to really get a hold of it's import. Part of the 'problem', if you can call it that, ...
Today's lesson on the Absolute: "The verb to solve, from which the term "absolute" derives, can be broken down into se-luo. In the Indo-European langu...
Gosh no. Apparently some doctorates think that we are pig-chimp hybrids so they clearly are under-qualified for holding opinions about this kind of th...
There are heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of female thinkers, if you do some cursory research. That they are not well known to the general public,...
Why not read Wheeler himself rather than derivative sources: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/wheeler_law_without_law.pdf The basic idea behi...
Speaking of Wheeler, it's always fun to remember his unequivocal stance for all those who like to misinterpret him on this point, that: "Consciousness...
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