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Thank you for a considered response. Is your claim that a methodological difference leads to incommensurability? That would be odd. One of the things ...

Well, that at least gave me a laugh.

Hiding in obscurity. Ok, disappointing, but I'll leave you to it.

Nothing much stand on the choice of "thought". Narrative, dialogue, discussion, beliefs, would also do.

This is the metaphor that holds sway with many here. What if language is less like a mail system, more like a construction site. What if instead of pa...

Frankly I don't understand what you are saying here. "The system... is knowledge"? "Sensation has no cognitive power"? "Dualism"? Maybe we can find so...

There's something very unconvincing about using biography to impute philosophical argument. It results in simplistic overgeneralisation. I'll leave yo...

You asked how "foundational matters" are worked out in analytic philosophy. On Certainty sets out why foundations do not matter... indeed, are

I'll just await @"Mww"'s response. It will be a bit more nuanced.

Ok, so how does this differ from, say, talking about a tree? Can you convey a tree by talk? How is talk of leaf and branch different to talk of smell ...

And yet we do talk about them. How can that be?

So move past the Tractatus and on to On Certainty. Instead of looking for what it makes sense to believe, look to what it makes sense to doubt. This p...

My chickens are conscious, but they don't say much.

Because it gets to the intent of the post, without the "knowing" that confused the issue so. But suit yourself, you are not under any obligation. That...

Well, at the least, in the sense that we can predicate to him: Santa wears a red hat. "Santa wears a red hat" is true. It is true that Santa wears a r...

, , have fun, chaps. Let us know when you want to get back on topic.

Aww, love you, too. If you want a discussion, be interesting.

Indeed.

No. These are not the same.

That's the thought: there is more to bike riding than the manual, but that "more" is effable: "get on your bikes an ride", to quote Freddy. Seems that...

Both were reversed by subsequent conservative governments. The health scheme has been reintroduced and is normalised. University funding remains...pro...

Here's were that is from: Suppose I had instead said, "suppose someone had a list of the instructions for riding a bike, to whatever detail we desire....

No, I don't think that scientific models of what things are and how to talk about them are models for philosophical thinking. I've argued avidly again...

Yep. Fifty years today since Gough Whitlam was elected. Back then there was hope.

This is a case where we have learned a lot from formal languages, from the way in which first order logic clearly differentiates the existential quant...

Not sure what you are asking. Roughly speaking, the ordinary language response from both Wittgenstein and Austin is that it is unreasonable to doubt t...

Ordinary language philosophy is an approach, a method, and so will be "correct" if it helps in sorting out a given philosophical problem. It's not so ...

Google "Philosophical Investigations PDF" :chin: Or look for Kenny's Wittgenstein instead.

Or making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

It was you who left the not-nothing-and-yet-not-something lying around. It's still there. Tell us some more about the ineffable.

Here we might go back to ...despite all this we do make use of words, one way or another. The knob gets to the right spot. How can that be so, unless ...

Has anyone else noted how much the conversation of phenomenologists looks like grooming?

Of course. I was making an attempt to bringing the disparate parts of this chat together. Quine's stuff on reference is not dissimilar to Wittgenstein...

Of course you are. And the reply is that such things cannot count as things. Around and around. What think you, ?

A valuable and erudite addition to our proceedings, ... :brow: (The emoji is for our American friends).

So you are of the Alanis Morissette school on this topic.

:razz: I've meditated enough to have experienced that state of "no-thought". Funny thing is, I'd heard of it before I achieved it, and recognised it. ...

Three pages in three hours. Methinks you post too much. Wannabes, all of you.

How're you traveling, @"jgill"?

And the coloured girls go do, dedo, dedo, dodeddo... Take a walk on the wild side.

There is something inept of folk, such as @"Leftist", in that they need to have it explained to them that ethics is to do with being nice to each othe...

It seems to me that there is a point about tacit knowledge being explicable and hence not ineffable, that is agreed by @"Moliere", @"frank" and others...

That, indeed, seems to be what is claiming... or reporting. He is trying to tell us of something of which he cannot tell us. And like the beetle it mu...

Again, well said. That is in agreement with my extended argument to @"hypericin" and @"Luke".

That's my preferred theory...

That's the one.

Well, you are the one claiming there is a thingie that can't be talked about, shown, or demonstrated... Excuse my scepticism.

Was that post meant for the "irony" thread?

And then there is Socratic irony, but no one here would know how to use that.

Or a scalpel.