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This put me in mind of the thread on Nice Derangement..., where I found the following: At some stage seeking explanations stops, and we act. And to yo...

And you are only a couple of thousand behind in total posts. You seem to be catching up.

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Yep. Now my response is that we as a community choose to use "the sky is blue" to set out something about the way things are (or are not, when it is o...

From the next paragraph: "...the extension is a relation between a and a fact in the world that must obtain". That's not quite right. Extensionality i...

SO on to the next paragraph, where we find the bit quoted: This seems pretty much on the money. "?p" does not follow from "p". But that's kinda the po...

Ok, so we can consider the review in a bit more detail. The first paragraph makes it clear that the intellectual predecessor here is McDowell. SO the ...

So theft results in the thief owning what has been stolen. And folk hereabouts think this a good argument?

Like Alice on Jabberwocky: Not being able to say what your ideas are is death in philosophy. Or rather, it ought be; but folk do go on so.

Hmm. It is logically possible for there to be a present King of France. That is, in some possible world there is a Present King of France. The trouble...

There's nothing logically inconsistent about the present King of France, no contradiction that follows from the very idea. It's just that there isn't ...

A recipe for solipsism.

Yep, more or less. After that we just have to explain what to do with the present King of France.

To be is to be the value of a (bound) variable remains a favourite. So to exist is to be the sort of thing that can be slotted into the expression "so...

Cheers, and success to your endeavours in the "Other Life". Thanks also for the reference. I have by now read a few such reviews, but all have in comm...

Just to be sure, I would agree that "assertoric force may be dissociated from predication" but am disincline to say "assertoric force is necessarily d...

Ok., good. Before I go on – if it seems worth going on – I might go over what I'm up to. Again, I haven't access to Kimhi, so can't address the book d...

Too far off topic.

A proposition will be true, given some interpretation, only when that interpretation assigns that individual to that property. That is, "Grass is gree...

I don't think so. Asserting that ? is true is different to asserting that ? is sound or valid. Not that ? on its own could be either sound or valid. S...

I'll go back over it, just to chaeck we are on the same page. I's said and that Frege The point is a straight forward one, I hope. Consider and Since ...

Not quite. On to looking at ?. From what I understand, in the Begriffsschrift "?" is an explicit judgement; what follows is known, while — would prefi...

So we have two different things, sense and reference on the one hand, and illocutionary force on the other. The distinction between them is not, I thi...

Ok, thank you. I see the thread has gotten away, with various posts the relevance of which are uncertain. That makes it difficult to do the step-by-st...

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Thanks for the excellent OP. I don't have access to Kimhi, but have read a few reviews and other articles. Instead of addressing Kimhi directly, I'll ...

I don't see how to put these ideas together coherently. The a priori is theoretical, the supposed stuff we do prior to observation. The capacity to se...

I think we would find it very hard to explain "internal" here, apart from contrasting it with "communal". No. but this does: You might instead have sa...

Sure. The big difference is the Wittgenstein rejects the solipsism of phenomenology by insisting on the place of perception as communal activity.

yet Wittgenstein juxtaposes these two statements, showing that knowledge must admit to the possibility of doubt. So "I left the keys in the room and n...

Thanks. There are two ways to know - explicit and implicit, knowing that and knowing how. In PI Witti deals in knowing that – with propositional knowl...

Again, the justification for "I know the key is on the table" cannot be "The key is on the table"; that's just a repetition of the claim.

There is a difference between knowing the key is on the desk and being certain that the key is on the desk. That's kinda the topic of On Certainty. Th...

I suspect that this sort of philosophical meandering would not have impressed Wittgenstein. Frank is right; there is a chair over there if it can be m...

If you say "I know the key is on the desk" and asks how you know, asks for a justification for your claim, do you think Frank will find "Because I wil...

Sorry - is your claim now that pain is also a fiction? :chin:

Are you OK?

That's wise.

Yep. Although the two are not exactly analogous. We can agree the fork is on my right while still maintaining that it is on your left. We can agree th...

Who are you talking to? I'm just one of your perceptions.

One can consistently believe that the Earth spins and that the sun rises in the East. These two statements depend on differing frames of reference, an...

Not all beliefs have justification. If a belief is to count as a piece of knowledge, then according to the usual account, it must be justified. Hence ...

Midgley's idea of differing areas of discourse.

Well, yes. It is true that the sun rises in the East; and we say it is true that the ball is red. What is "really" doing there? Prioritising one narra...

Sunrise is an issues of differing coordinate systems. Is that what is being said about colour?

THis alone should be sufficient to show Michael's error. The ball is red.

But since repetition is de rigueur, Here's my observation. I agree entirely with the scientific account of the physiology of colour. However, this acc...

What a mess. After reading this I've no idea of what what I am accused.

I can't see how any of the multiple quotes count against the contention that Wittgenstein held the proper use of "know" to involve justified true beli...

But, with this thread, evidently not. Edit: And it looks as if the conversation will continue. That's how threads such as this function, with folk who...