Not a metaphor. @"schopenhauer1" apparently expects Wittgenstein to comply to the very form his approach undermines. He claims Wittgenstein doesn't ad...
Yeah, fixed. The link should be to your first post on this thread. Point being that the topic here is essence, and the other thread is about belief. M...
Well, he did that, in that I had more or less taken Essence as a dead end, but what we have here gives it a bit of freshness. It harks back to some of...
Yep. I think it worth adding that he also shows that pointing, referring, and indeed ostension of any form are already aspects of some language game. ...
Maybe. I don't see much by way of an argument in favour of essences, a reason that we need take them into account. I agree, of course, that our langua...
My cynical self says that, having been unable to provide a suitable account of essences in ontological terms using modal language, Fine moved essentia...
Thank you. So reflecting this back, Fine shows that there are necessary truths (the singleton) that are not true of the essence of Socrates, and so th...
Not much. The terms in each premise do not match. On a generous reading the last three might form a syllogism, but that leaves the first out. For it t...
Trouble is, from a claim that you know such-and-such, we cannot conclude that such-and-such is true. After all, we do sometimes say "I thought I knew....
By way of relaunching the discussion of the Fine article, I might offer the following rough summary. Kit Fine pretty much accepts that the modal accou...
He clearly didn't write anything of the sort. He wrote that one of the ways in which words can be used is to point. The Wiki article leaves much to be...
has an idealist bent, and so is perhaps suggesting that any language game will do. There's a pinch of truth in saying language games do not reflect th...
A couple of things. In PI§66 Wittgenstein, in considering the nature of games, asks us not to theorise but instead to look at how the word "game" is a...
So what? Well, it comes from Kripke because he is the bloke who developed a working semantics for modality. Modality is the part of logic that deals w...
An alternative version. Suppose that the only thing we know about Thales is that he fell into a well. On the descriptivist account, "Thales" and "The ...
I don't see that you have understood the argument. Your supposed reply begs the question by supposing that "Thales" sans description does not refer to...
Wittgenstein's work shows the poverty of what is here being called "theorising". There's something oddly obtuse in denouncing him for not doing someth...
What twaddle. Wittgenstein explicitly asks his readers to look at how words are actually used. Suggesting he does not look at how "the language game h...
Really? If Thales did not fall down the well, that is a truth about Thales, not about his name. You'd have to fill this out somewhat. And it's not tha...
yet No corporate law then. That's a rather extreme form of laissez-faire! Honestly, what you are setting out here is too incomprehensible, too incoher...
Worker cooperatives need not be imposed. Your' engaging in the fallacy of composition. You've also moved from the claimt hat there isno society to a c...
Isn't what? your point remains obscure. So if you inherit your shares, having them forced on you involuntarily, then... what? Again, you appear to arg...
Meh. Of course anyone can purchase shares, and even if the numbers are not public, the process is. What you call "collectivist politics" is a commonpl...
Yep. What's salient here is the communal nature of certain intentions. This relates to 's recent thread. I won't go into Searle here, too much of a di...
No. Forget about "the meaning of a particular word" and instead look to how it is used. There is a way of understanding a word that is not found in se...
Austin, especially in Other Minds, addresses "real". Consider the question: Is it a real one? When you ask if it is real, what are you sugesting? No, ...
Hey, folks, DNA evolved on Earth. What would be extraordinary is if ET had any DNA. The story is a crock. If you can't see that your critical skills a...
To be clear, what I'm suggesting is that the issue at hand – the identity of indiscernibles – is not an empirical question. Rather we might see it as ...
sure. Just to reiterate, I have not come across a version of essence that is of much use, but I’m happy to gives consideration to any that’s proffered...
I think all three assumptions problematic. For the sake of simplicity, I've been focusing on the third, using Donnellan's argument. I thought that cle...
Well, we might have to leave this as moot, since what you see as advantageous is what I see as deleterious. But to the topic of this thread, what sort...
If your point is that Russell's descriptive account is problematic, then we agree. The converse of the issue you describe is presumably that folk such...
I'm pleased you are enjoying Anscombe. She is a favourite of mine. She is writing at a time and with a background that pretty much took the descriptiv...
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