That's the kind of reason I (and I claimed also W) counseled dispensing with mental entities. I was going along with it (entities included) out of int...
Loosely (indirectly, residually) of course, but he (like the grade school teacher) isn't heading towards your kind of diagram, in which thoughts or an...
My comment was very broad brush, so I wouldn't be surprised to have chapter and verse thrown against it. But the only line there that I can see addres...
How do you mean incoherent? Because of a homunculean regress? Or because inescapably private? Or somehow else? Or is "incoherent" not the criticism? "...
One respect in which I think it fair to say that the Tractatus anticipates the PI is in arguing in terms of "thought" in such a way as to facilitate b...
Sure, but also they can be 'scare' quotes: So in a thread about distinguishing word from object, requests for clarification might be expected. Haha, f...
Ok. And you prefer single inverted commas, but the reader infers, from your use of the word "term", that you use these single marks as quote marks. We...
Do you (agreeing with W) mean, ? And then do you (agreeing with W) mean, ? Although that doesn't fit with the following sentence, so do you (agreeing ...
W's picture theory of meaning is that a particular one of the facts or structural features of a truth-bearer is isomorphic to (is a diagram of) its tr...
The point is that, in the terminology of the text in question, That the dog has fleas is a fact and not a sentence. "The dog has fleas" is a sentence ...
In everyday usage, sure. But W seems clear enough here that he means "combinations of things". As opposed to individual things, and as opposed to any ...
In the text in question, indeed not. They are what true propositions picture. The situation you there picture may be a fact. (For W in the text in que...
Perhaps you mean, Perhaps you mean, (in the sense of true sentence). Or perhaps you mean, I don't claim you won't find plenty of similar mishandling o...
In a lot of usage, sure. But W seems clear enough here, in the text in question, that he would say no, he means "combinations of things". Their manner...
In everyday usage, sure. But W seems clear enough here that he means "combinations of things". As opposed to individual things, and as opposed to any ...
The latter, but not magic... more like money. Logic is licence to print (utter) valid tokens. And to invalidate/falsify/exclude/delete/negate their ne...
(1) Some affirmations of any true statement are justified. (2) Some future affirmations of any true statement not previously affirmed justifiably are ...
All true statements are knowable. (1) All unknown true statements are knowable. (2, from 1) .............................................................
Ah but then your usage of "sensations" implies picture-type qualities inside. Mine didn't. I meant, brain activity is acts of perception. But still ye...
Yes if that means having pictures (or qualities) inside as well as outside. No if it means experiencing changes in perceptual readiness, i.e. learning...
is the myth, the internal picture that doesn't happen. What happens is a readiness to order and classify and predict, along any number of respects or ...
Not everyone can distinguish fact from fiction. But that inability is quite normal. In perception, it manifests as the mental image myth. (Leading to ...
So they are fictional, like characters in a fictional story? They don't literally exist? Good. But likewise, also, arguably, the so-called images alle...
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