Wittgenstein

Considering the fact that life is a gamble of chance and random success. It's not far fetched to call life a joke. The contrast between every happy so...

The USA has a history of replacing popular democratically elected government with puppet government through various overt and covert approaches. Long ...

Biden Policy on Turkey The concern is reasonable and l expect that his administration will be very aggressive. I fear greater foreign intervention in ...

If "a" refers to "b" , doesn't this imply "b" refers also to "a". Even if you do not explicitly state what the number "1" in the sentence 1 refers to....

I read the article on Witts philosophy of mathematics some time ago, Wittgenstein rejects the set of real numbers or any sort of infinite mathematical...

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our philosophies, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

While l cannot predict how our understanding of ethics will be in the future. I want to understand why till this day we have not achieved any sort of ...

Good lord, l like your energy. I cannot be a philosopher unless l act like one. I am just a spectator. Carnap, Poincaré, Husserl were educated in phys...

Yet, we can find consensus in mathematics and hard science, despite human infallibility. Are philosophical questions such that we cannot help but be b...

Philosophical argument run in both directions.We cannot justify our premises in philosophy as we have to start somewhere. I think every philosopher st...

Perhaps it may be unfair to compare philosophy with hard sciences and a comparison with economics, social science and psychology is more useful. Philo...

A theory is committed to those and only those entities to which the bound variables of the theory must be capable of referring in order that the affir...

Quine famously argued for the existence of abstract objects like sets,numbers etc along with physical objects we find in the universe. It is argued th...

I think the main problem with Tractatus is self contradiction. The main thesis of Tractatus is the idea that only logical propositions and empirical p...

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It would be ridiculous to ban the usage of the phrase or throw them in the memory holes. On a side note, we need to bring back Orwellian terms in poli...

I believe perfection is attainable and there is nothing wrong with striving for it. This discussion shouldn't be really important cause we should not ...

Ofcourse you can acknowledge your mistakes while accepting the fact that no one is perfect but the motivation to improve it comes from the desire to b...

On the basis of no one being perfect. Whether we should forgive others or advise them to forgive themselves is difficult to decide simply because of t...

It is an excuse for mediocrity. Most of us want to feel that everyone is like us. In reality, there are countless people in every field that are light...

Even if we apply reasoning to everything, we will still face problems that will take perhaps a few hundred more years to be resolved. In those matters...

If the other person shares the same fundamental beliefs that l have with regards to the topic. Then,any argument within that constraint will be meanin...

I think philosophy can be seen as too primitive in some cases. It is obviously sophisticated depending on the thought process that goes into answering...

Your question is interesting and existence is a very touchy topic. I think in order to build conclusions, we need to take certain facts or "common sen...

Ourselves and our thoughts. The certainty of the self is also a thought.

The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

If you don't exit. How did you post your question on this forum ? :grin:

I think your categorization in the Kantian fashion is very clear and useful. But, one of the category is usually subject to scrutiny, the category of ...

I think belief in God comes from being aware of the despair we have in our life without God. Only God can cure us from that despair. Those who do not ...

But if l say a certain proposition is sometimes true , l also say that it is sometimes false. But if l say a proposition is always true, then it is ne...

What do you take the word neccessary to mean ?

You example is correct but l don't see any problem with mine as it also refers to itself in a paradoxical manner. Maybe l responded to an earlier post...

I don't think we should use the word is as a relation between two propositions. Unless you meant to represent numbers. If we say p=p, we don't add any...

If p states that " all propositions are false " Then p is also false which implies all propositions are true. Hence, p is also true. We started with p...

I never regard religious topics worth debating in the context of philosophy. I just think reasoning doesn't really work there.Those who want to believ...

That's analogous to the classic philosophy question. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound ?

But l think there are artists who don't want their art to be public knowledge and they keep it to themselves. Art will never die in a way but become l...

It is dead depending on where you look for it.

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Most of the artist that we have in the mainstream are all about buisness and not about art.Bad art is worse than nothing. When you have nothing infron...

I think martial art will give us an interesting insight into art. It can be kept hidden from being used yet it is still there in the person. The great...

I think the artist can also present something as it is when everyone else around is busy with changing it into something else. Realism in art comes to...

I think art should always be defined with respect to the artist. So you won't be surprised to see many definitions of art circulating around. I think ...

Every philosophical position has it's own strength and weaknesses and even if l argue for a certain idea in philosophy. l have an overwhelming feeling...

All of them in a way but they all share a common feature. Pretentiousness. That's what l always feel secretly when reading philosophy.

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I can't argue against what you have just written since it is right.

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