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No by all means, talk about information without talking about information, but maybe just call it 'Wayfarer's understanding of information for which t...

So you want to employ information without reference to any of its specificity? Just a rhetorical crutch? Par for Wayfarer course.

Please kindly read and educate yourself on Wittgenstein before offering these half-baked made-up critiques, thanks.

Ha, good catch!

But one can be mistaken about the meaning of a word: this speaks to someone's lack of knowledge - it is a comment on the person using the word, not th...

Yes, and? What does that have to do with Wittgenstein?

No, this has nothing to do with truth. Forget 'correct' meaning. There is meaning, or there isn't meaning (something is meaningful, or meaningless), t...

Me murdering someone also has a built-in element of success or failure. It's quite the fun game. As does me cooking fried rice of course. Delicious ga...

One possible source of confusion among posts here is the conflation of information with meaning. The two are not the same. Shannon was quite clear the...

This is not a 'core assumption of Wittgenstein', which you would know if you actually had even a passing familiarity of the view you are trying to 'cr...

It's a fair point. There is indeed a difference between Biden and Trump. Trump is a piece of shit and everyone knows it, and Biden is a piece of shit ...

It's amazing what pieces of shit people will turn into when defending their favourite rapists.

Not in any straightforward way. There have been efforts to use information theory in order to shore up a theory of consciousness that accounts for the...

On review, I ought to have said that this: /uploads/files/zn/thvrezurenberxyk.png Has the least information of all. :up:

Given it a go, have you?

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Yep. In the below, the second, asymmetric ('disordered') organization of dots contains much more information than the first ('ordered') arrangement of...

It would of course be stupid to say that deviation from equiprobability 'is' matter. That wouldn't make grammatical sense. But to try and squeeze bloo...

None of those words - the ones you pointed out - have referents either though.

Shamaning incoming!

I feel like someone should make a Wittypedia. EDIT: Although of course it exists as an encyclopedia of Witticisms and not Wittgensteinsms :(

Nah it's all bloody chaos. Although no doubt some shaman will mythologize that too.

But it's OK because this rapist is OUR rapist.

Glad to be in agreement :smile:

Frank was reduced to babbling insults and this guy reduced to, well, the same. It's like people who support Biden are totally incapable of coherent ar...

Yes I can see how the DNC changed mightily by literally nominating the next in line from the Obama administration. The discontinuity is jarring! Chang...

Yes, much like how the mobilization of hunderds and thousands of people worked so well to gain Bernie the nomination hey? This is what you don't get: ...

Ah yes, not rolling over to the DNC by ... doing exactly what the DNC wants. I suppose this is much like how voting is not a matter of accountability....

Information is ... deviation from equiprobability (noise). In that sense it can never really be a 'simple', insofar as it is premised on that-which-is...

"Give" us "an" "example" "of" "a" "word" "being" "used" "without" "a" "referent".

I think to do philosophy in the 21st century is to be a Wittgensteinian in some way; The PI laid out and made explicit the conditions under which all ...

God making Wittgenstein fanbois mad by not titling him THE BEST PHILOSOPHER EVER is fun. Dude was pretty good. Coulda used a dose of metaphysics to ma...

Yes but my God imagine wasting that kind of time lol.

Witty made some cool contributions to philosophy worthy of study like hundreds of other philosophers out there too :) 7.8/10 philosophy stars, would r...

No it literally is.

Electoral gaslighting - "look what you made me do". DNC lackey. No wonder America's so fucked up - a place where voters get blamed for the inadequacie...

Actually that's exactly what it is and no amount of double-speak will change that fact. Elections are quite literally mechanisms of accountability, an...

To present warmed over Heidegger and ask if anyone has an oven to warm it up a little more.

Yeah I mean it's not like "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is one of the most famous communist slogans out there. ...

But if you OrGaNiZe and be an AcTiVisT they will name a National Burger Day (after a woman chef) and Trump wouldn't do that! ha! Checkmate commie scum...

:lol:

Ah there you go again with the big hitting arguments. Real intellectual-powerhouse stuff Frank, no idea how I'm going to match. Maybe next time you ca...

*With the caveat that deportation rates under Trump still fail to match that of Obama, and that Biden has flip-flopped on abortion like the flavour of...

But you have to be delusional to think that this is what Biden will enable. Why in the world would the DNC offer anything when the apoplexia of "imagi...

Yeah no one is saying much of anything because there's nothing to say. Just give the DNC carte blanche and acquiesce in the obsolescence of what minim...

Yeah just a few "hot spots of American life" like incarcerating blacks at record rates and supporting illegal, region-runing wars. Usual American stuf...

Yeah I also want to know what to make of him enabling the indebting of an entire generation and sniffing young girls at every opportunity!

Thanks, Xtrix!

Oh I didn't censor them .

Oh and speaking of Twitter! /uploads/resized/files/ia/l75cnyl5mkutf0zz.jpg