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Yeah, but the really important point is not only that we must observe how language is used among living human beings, but equally that meaning in lang...

Wittgenstein never actually speaks of communally agreed usages though. And when the topic of agreement is broached, what is agreed upon is a 'form of ...

You might like Cavell's writing on this: "We learn and teach words in certain contexts, and then we are expended, and expect others, to be able to pro...

Nope, I mean that conventions as such - if by this we mean already-established uses of language - are quite literally irrelevant to Wittgenstein's acc...

For poor readers of his perhaps.

Nah, my comment wasn't really directed at you in particular. Sure, but it is vitally important that the notion of use in a language game is made categ...

Mm, the 'use' in 'meaning-as-use' has never referred to 'conventional use' but 'use in a language game' - and to be in a language game is to be not 'c...

One thing to note is that terrorism is largely born of failure. It is the resort of those who, lacking access to official mechanisms of power or legit...

https://viewfromaburrow.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/petals-of-fire-1989.jpg Petals of Fire by Cy Twombly. I think it looks pretty (and a little menaci...

Wendy Brown - Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution Raymond Geuss - Politics and the Imagination (new copy :D )

Someone remind me, what's the exact phrase that goes something like 'reality is richer than all of what can be dreamt up by your philosophy' or someth...

I don't see the relevance of any of these points. One can well be motivated - and indeed strongly so - by incoherent ideas, and those ideas may in tur...

Does one 'not believe' in square circles? Or is to speak of belief already to concede too much? i.e. that there is anything coherent to 'believe' or '...

If it's really a matter of experience may I suggest: Don't.

Sure, but this has no bearing on use-theory. Or if you think it does, then you don't understand what it entails. Which seems pretty clear from your po...

So no argument from you then OK thanks for playing.

Because? Is no one able to make arguments in this thread?

And the relevance of this is?

I had a thread a bit back on Wittgenstein's meter, framed as a discussion of examples. Perhaps some might find it useful?

Again, all that can be granted - however contentious and however wrong I think it is - without putting into question the use-theory. But my spade is t...

Ok, but that has nothing to do with meaning in language. Again, one can grant all you're saying without it being in any way an objection to the use-th...

Again, your objection simply isn't relevant. Whatever the 'cause' of your 'use of language', it does not bear upon a theory of how language comes to m...

Except meaning is use in a language game. A language-game may or may not be 'actual' (may not be actively employed by a community of speakers, or any ...

Again, this is irrelevant to a thesis about how words come to mean. How words come to mean, and the motivations for their employment are two entirely ...

That doesn't follow.

I don't see the relevance of the question. The reason people use words has nothing to do with how words come to mean.

Yes, you can. You may not be very comprehensible to others, but in principle, this is exactly the case.

This is exactly wrong though. Dictionaries just are catalogues of word use. This is why dictionaries constantly introduce new words, and indeed, offer...

Not once in our exchange have you even used the word behaviour, let alone cognitive science. So no, you have in no way made that clear. But again, I s...

OK, and what does that have to do with meaning-as-use? This is the last time I'll ask I'm afraid. So far you've yet to present an actual argument - on...

But this doesn't work either. All you've done is identify a distinction, and then assert without argument that meaning-as-use is not compatible with a...

But this is just the conclusion you're trying to establish. You can't use it as a premise without begging the question. This is the very thing im look...

I'm still not sure I understand. Even if it is granted that 'our brains must be capable of thinking in terms of universals' (in order to designate con...

But why not? What is it about concept use that puts the use-theory into question? I'm just trying to understand the actual argument behind the suspici...

Part of the argument, to the extent that I understand it, is that there must be some sort of categorical difference between humans and animals with re...

Hannah Arendt - Between Past and Future: Eight Excercises In Political Thought Wendy Brown - Politics out of History

Hello - one of the classic resources on this is Johanna Oksala's aptly named Foucault on Freedom, which, if you're lucky, you might be able to find at...

"Theory depicts a world that does not quite exist, a world that is not quite the one we inhabit. An interval between the actual and the theoretical is...

Ah, but you forgot my favourite 'type' of atheism - serene atheism, in which the problem of God simply... isn't one; in which the only proper orientat...

Wendy Brown - Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Take a Geuss :P I'm so sad though, I left a bag in a taxi with Politics and the Imagination in it and it was such a good book :(

*Yawn*. We've always-already been in a 'post-intelligent design' world, and the only people for whom this is an issue are those who've been under the ...

Actually one of the unspoken rules we have is that we delete every 24th post which opens with the letter T and ends with the letter S, but if and only...

Didn't touch your posts personally but that thread is still here.

"The immediate disqualification of historical arguments as instances of “the genetic fallacy” often misses the point that a historical narrative is in...

Raymond Geuss - Philosophy and Real Politics Raymond Geuss - Politics and the Imagination Raymond Geuss - Outside Ethics

While well-intentioned, it misses the point to look only at 'secular Islamic states'. A more telling metric would be to look at Muslims populations ge...

Haha, wow, yeah sure 'almost impossible'. Don't let the actually exisiting fact of hundreds of millions of Muslims living in relatively secular states...

Except it isn't. Let me put it otherwise: there is no inherent articulation between Islam and the State, either positively or negatively. There neithe...

My favourite headline I saw somewhere about this was 'Pirates Pirate Pirates'.