It’s been a bit since I posted in here last, but I’d like to pick up where I’ve left off and try to catch up! Brief recap: we’re in a section where Wi...
(sorry for late reply) I suppose I could give you Zizek's answer or I could give you mine. Zizek's is a whole thing about the subject, and how it the ...
Idk there's a delicious irony in the fact that manhood is associated with a pair of fragile little dangly, shrively things. And everybody - men and wo...
Okay, I think I know where I got confused: in my attempt to distinguish between dimensions and n-ply magnitudes, I conflated certain things. For insta...
Originally posted by @"Paul24", merged into this thread: "Hello everyone, Today I would like to discuss with you a very delicate but interesting subje...
One thing that I've taken for granted in the above presentation is the fact that dimensions are always 'one number higher' than n-ply extended magnitu...
Hard to add to what @"fdrake" already laid out for §2, so maybe just a bit of 'how Streetlight intuits it' kind of thing. So, my approach has been to ...
Two points to make I guess. First is that I invoked the 'not-all' Logic to diffuse the general question of monism asked in the OP, irrespective of the...
Tabled summary of §1: /uploads/resized/files/5q/hg5sudyjv7xj2pti.png (Ahh, I messed up the last bit of this table: the type of measure for discrete ma...
If you guys and gals want to speak of 'applying Wittgnestien', here's what could be a fun exercise. With respect to the current sections of the PI tha...
I just mean I can't see deleted posts so I'm working off memory here - and that if I recall, your OP was something like "I have some papers written by...
If you're who I think you are (or rather, if that post was what I think it is), I didn't delete it, but I believe the idea is that no one is here to p...
"Get it into your head that, if you are unable to believe, it is because of your passions, since reason impels you to believe and yet you cannot do so...
I'm not sure when we're supposed to start, but I was reading the introduction to the Riemann paper and was making notes, so I figure I'll do a quick p...
§70 §70 continues to emphasise how boundaries (read: rules) are inessential to the workings of concepts (to the concept of concepts, if you will). Thi...
To be honest, I've tried to read into this and I still haven't found a satisfactory answer beyond 'because Freud was a Victorian'. I'm sure someone be...
Yeah, it's pretty delicate, and my use of positive/negative isn't quite on the mark, because a constraint can well be understood as a positive claim a...
§69 §69 does some clarification work about the role of boundaries with respect to games (which we can also read as: 'rules with respect to language-ga...
One way to make sense of 'everything' claims is to treat those claims not as substantive, but as formal. That is, to say something like 'everything is...
I largely agree with this, especially with §66 and §67, which are about as clear as Witty gets. So on to §68: The first thing that stands out about §6...
Hmm, this isn't a petitio principii. The major premise may not be sound, but there's no logical fallacy being committed here: P1: Anyone who helps the...
Yeah, it's no accident that that Witty reprises the vocabulary of the TLP when he speaks of the 'general form of the proposition' - italicised in the ...
§65 §65 serves as something like a transitional discussion, which both picks up from the previous section (i.e. sections §46-§64), and serves to intro...
The fun is in the exercise, not only the results; each section is like a math problem - the answers are probably out there - in the back of the book, ...
§61-§64 §61-§64 is an extended discussion about the difference and/or similarities between the two ways of playing the ‘game’ set out at the end of §6...
I think that this reading actually brings to completion a line of thought that Witty himself only half finished in §58, because he got caught up in a ...
Okay okay okay wait I think I understand the movement of the passage: here’s something that struck me while reading your replies and §58 again: the re...
§60 §60 is long, but its quite a bit of fun. The basic question is this: is it the same to say that ‘the broom is in the corner’ as it is to say that ...
§59 §59 replaces the ‘elements’ of §48 with ‘constituent parts’: this vocabulary has the advantage of being a lot less metaphysically loaded than ‘ele...
§58 §58 is a dialectical nightmare. Here’s what I think is going on in it. It seems to me that there’s a kind of thesis-antithesis-synthesis structure...
Forget 'true' correspondence. Stop using words not employed by the PI. 'Ideal', 'True Correspondence', etc - these are MUisms that muddy the text beyo...
It's good. It packages contemporary Marxist critique in a clear and accessible way, with an emphasis on education and mental health. A short, depressi...
It is. But the name is what represents - what stands for. And it bothers me because its basic semiotics. Signs stand for things. Things do not stand f...
You deleted your post so I deleted mine and now the order of things is messed up :sad: Anyway, I'm still quite unclear on the nature of your objection...
As a general point though, it's worth pointing out how odd it is to say that things 'stand for' words. Everyone knows what it means for a word to stan...
I'm using 'stand for' in place of, or as synonymous with, Witty's remark about words 'signifying'. Nothing special going on here. §56: "But what if no...
One of the nice things about evolution is that for the most part, it tends to - by nature, as it were - shape organisms which strike a balance between...
A quick interpretive note on the last two sections I wrote about: it's often noted that Witty is targeting the idea that the use of names must corresp...
§57 §57 deepens the equivalence between paradigms 'in here' and paradigms 'out there' that was introduced in §56. Recall that in §55, Witty noted that...
Ahh, I've been crazy busy over the holidays so I haven't been keeping up my commentary, so I'm just gonna pick up where I left off. Excuses if I'm a l...
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