Wittgenstein

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I think Iran is only trying to save face. There will probably be no American casualties while Iran will claim to have successfully avenged the killing...

US administration will obviously say that they don't want to head into an another war but simultaneously create a situation which makes their interven...

There won't be a war in the traditional sense. Iran will target American interests which are spread around the middle east. In short, you can expect a...

Thanks for being honest. The United States has always carried out extrajudicial killings and the assassination of the Iranian General was nothing shor...

She is getting used by the big fishes.

I hope l don't get this messed up but l think these two examples will clarify a priori from a posteriori. A priori If John is taller than Mary and Mar...

I don't think it will be wrong to say that he was influenced by Brouwer and they did meet and discussed intuitionist logic. In the beginning of of his...

Given your assumptions that we let the universe be infinite and the your conclusion. I do not see how they follow. We can have no boundaries between u...

I think religion in the USA, particularly Christianity, has lost it's real essence. They have stuck to a few principles that complement their culture ...

This can certainly be included into the topic of discourse analysis as Wittgenstein thinks meaning is use and particularly for mathematics, he conside...

I believe Wittgenstein thinks that a system in which there are contradictions can still be meaningful and even helpful in certain cases as inconsisten...

Are you turned on by darkness ? Thanks for casting light on this topic.

I heard you will be providing some special services :wink:

I guess we Kant stop it now.

You have ignored my best friend Malcolm. That's not nice.

By Nazi, l take that you mean Donald Trump. :smile:

In Cambridge, around 2005. He was delivering lectures on the foundation of mathematics and he decided to pay me a visit as l was teaching a similar co...

I hope it's a bit neat now.

Yes, lecture XIX

It's difficult to edit it as it's a giant copy paste. I will try to see what l can do, l can't see if anyone would be bothered to read it though.

Considering your scientism, You might as well as build a temple of science and bow down before all your "idols" . Why do we need religion when we have...

I apologize for my terrible copy paste above but l can tell, wittgenstein is really making a profound point here. He even has Turing struggling to giv...

I think if we all started reading Wittgenstein's Lectures on the foundation of mathematics, a lot of issues that come up here can be addressed in a go...

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This passage is directly from a book of wittgenstein N(0) is used for the cardinality of the set of natural numbers. Wittgenstein shows that the techn...

I'm 101 percent confident

Why is infinity always discussed here ? 1. Infinity is not a number. 2. Being undefined means we cannot assign any value to something. 3. Lim x->0 ( 1...

What's my age ?? :wink:

I hope my toxic defeatist attitude leaves your beautiful creative soul alone and alive.

An acceptable theory of mind is beyond the scope the philosophy and even science in my opinion. Logical empiricism has it's own faults too.

Yes. The only way the shift will take place is that we abandon philosophy. If no one asks a question, there won't be any answers to find. Everything w...

We can actually, with help of computer software then print it out. Dud dahh !!

That's my principle of engagement unless l get called out on my BS and the BS smells really bad and is clear as the day. Sometimes I just say Go ahead...

I simply look at the type of people who are believing it. If they happen to be critical, it is a well constructed lie ( a little lie ). If they happen...

Assuming you were 20 year old back then, you are approximately 77 right now. You are probably the oldest user here then

I meant the real number line but the set of real numbers is uncountably infinite so l think l did mess up there. You can clear things up . :smile: I h...

That's a long time ago. I still have to learn a little more group theory before l can begin to appreciate it deeply. I wish he lived longer though. Wh...

Before addressing anything else, l want to assure you that l didn't want to take a jab at you or anything like that. I felt what you wrote was really ...

Totally. l had a discussion a few weeks ago, where the other person wouldn't acknowledge that scientific statements are not a priori.

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Ironically in philosophy, the simple things are left unnoticed. The most cryptic philosopher is usually the one who is studied the most too cause it i...

Well l will see what l can say. Let's try this.

That had me laughing out loud. :lol:

It isn't really a paradox anymore. Consider a line segment of length 1. It can be cut into length 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16 and so on if we add up all the leng...

I can't even comprehend the terms that are being used. Like here.

He also stormed out of the room

Even the greatest philosophers engaged in "fights". The Poker incident Wittgenstein insisted that there can never be a moral proposition and pointed a...

Even Stephen Hawking fell for that. :grin:

Critical thinking shouldn't only involve criticism but also an ability to correct the mistakes you have found. That aspect is largely missing and is n...