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Cheers. I'd formed the opinion that many worlds interpretation is favoured on Youtube videos but not by actual physicist. I hadn't seen it garner abov...

How prescient of the First Council of Nicaea.

I can't find anything that supports this.

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:roll: What an utterly hopeless piece of thinking.

Same thing. Dissolving philosophical problems often (always?) consists in finding the better way to say something, of looking at the problem different...

Predicting, as I understand it. None of which implies that we see things only indirectly. Better, drop the notion of direct and indirect and just say ...

Depends on what one understands by "direct". As discussed at length with @"Isaac", who knows about such things, one does not see the results of one's ...

perhaps. The bit where someone explains what indirect realism is still needs work. Seems unclear.

So we repeat the mantra "It's got science behind it" in the place of thinking? The debate between direct and indirect realism was settled a ways back ...

@"Moliere", - that's also the flaw in the various "will to power" philosophies, and why Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were also alone - failed humans, un...

I'm inclined to agree as per this particular argument. However the sentiment behind the argument, the rejection of radical scepticism by showing that ...

See my reply to Molie, immediately above. Trump is alone.

Yes, and here Sartre's misanthropy comes into play. Since hell is other people one might not take into account the needs of one's tormenters. So is in...

...and hence the very notion of that you "experiencing in my mind the colour red" is senseless. But that's more Investigations than Tractatus.

Thanks for the reply, @"RussellA" Almost. The temptation here is to downplay the importance of what cannot be said. From a letter to Russell, Wittgens...

Fine. I see your post has attracted the quantum enthusiasts, so you will have your work cut out for you. So we might just note that there are modal im...

I don't understand what that means. Are you saying there are no particulars? Or that we cannot predicate to a particular? But "Wayfarer" designates a ...

So it a question of fitting the new individual into an existing description. I'm afraid I cannot see how you are not committing yourself to a descript...

Then I haven't followed you in understanding what it is to be determinate. You are not here saying that whatever we believe to exist has an associated...

I wonder if you are familiar with What the Tortoise Said to Achilles? The argument there proceeds as follows. We have (A) Things that are equal to the...

But are you saying something like that there are no individuals, only descriptions? That an individual is some sort of shorthand for a definite descri...

So you are returning to the theory of descriptions, the idea that a proper name only has a referent in virtue of some definite description - your "det...

Hey, I'm happy not to use either, and just talk about experiences, or better, cars.

Yeah, so drop the "in terms of private experience"... And that's the answer to .

So when you say this, you are pointing out the "thing" is part of the hidden state passed from iteration to iteration, and folk instead take you to be...

Funny, I had much the same conversation with Janus a week back. I've been ducking in and out, so I haven't followed the whole conversation, but it see...

One experiences one's ideas? Seems very passive.

In the end, it's all down to the sauce.

My contribution is that so far as aI understand it, this seems an accurate account: So I'm not so pleased with it.

Do you think of a postbox without any proposition? Or do you imagine it, picture it, envisage it, dream it, project it... What Wittgenstein is doing m...

It's a troubling topic, it seems. What you look at a sunset, you are emphatically not looking at a wavelength of light. To do that would require some ...

Yes. But not everything in one's mind is a thought, not everything can be put into proposition form. Those things can be shown. SO it would be mistake...

Cheers. A point at which we meet. In this case, language is for ordering coffee. What information is transferred - a thought, a nod, a grunt, some mon...

He removes the various ambiguities for his own purposes. Can't you be seen as forcing the "distinction between the public and the private", with which...

It might be helpful at this point to again look at one of the great themes, perhaps the main theme, running through all Wittgenstein's work. It's the ...

Much obliged for the correct. So the argument is: Here's logic! And hence we are, one and all, brains in vats. QED. He also spoke of impressions, henc...

And you suppose nothing has changed in philosophy since 1776? Fine. A misquote? This seems to be your argument. Hs one misperceiv'd it?

Yes. It is an error of novices. It stems from a little dabbling in philosophy. Hence... Putnam’s goal in introducing the vatted brain was to refute th...

Ok. and?

Yes, I expressed that poorly. Better to point out that that the form of an object is the states of affairs in which it can occur. Hence we understand ...

What?

Yet the world is the totality of facts, not of things. I'll bold that to emphasise the point that contrary to your analysis objects are not assumed in...

I don't agree that objects are his starting point. So far as he has one, it would be relations, following on from Russell and Frege. Hence,

We experience a tree by looking, listening, tasting, touching, smelling. And as points out, by planting it, watering it, climbing it. We experience th...

Yes. :wink:

He doesn't. Objects are demanded by the nature of language.

I'm at pains to seperate the bits; Witti said that the PI ought be read in conjunction with the Tractatus; problems with the tractatus are addressed i...

I wonder, are you following this conversation? Are you still reading the Tractatus?

This notion of a "private, subjective experience" permeates your writing. It is not used in the Tractatus. For the purposes of exegesis, Doesn't look ...