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Well, I don't think that right. But we might do better than exchange mere opinions. But your comments so far lead me to believe that you are, as kinde...

Cheers. Let me know of any further thoughts.

So what could a "relation-less predicate" be? The predicates of the Tractatus just are relations: aRb

I don't see what you are getting at. Are you puzzling over what logical operators correspond to in states of affairs?

As did I. I surmise that the rejection of the Tractatus' simples, of logical atoms, sits behind On Certainty. The certainties in the Tractatus are tau...

Because of a love of wet blankets? They are adept at putting out fires. Anscombe's conversion preceded her meeting Wittgenstein. Others were in the ma...

Pretty much that the Logical Positivists took on the logical analysis of the Tractatus, using it as a scimitar to slash away vast areas of philosophic...

How's that? I think that's the point I made in regard to the OP. Sam's clearer rendering may help. Perhaps, that the dog has fleas is a fact, that "th...

Yes. Well, it might be better to say that it does not even have the capacity to have a truth value - it cannot have a sense. It doesn't say anything. ...

:grin: There's a world, and a picture of the world set out by a collection of propositions. A proposition in the set can be reduced, by logical analys...

:wink: It should be clear that anything said here will be contentious. Speaking vaguely, the answer must be "yes", but the picture theory intervenes h...

, Sure, objects are simples. But... The question here is on of exegesis, not ontology. What is the difference between Russell's and Wittgenstein's log...

That's because "p" is true IFF p. They have the same truth value, and hence set out the same state of affairs. And so a true proposition is a fact. Lo...

"Combination of objects". Objects need not be (material) things. The exact use of "name" and "object" is contentious.

I don't see a point to what you said more than: That the dog has fleas is a fact. "The dog has fleas" is a sentence. That "The dog has fleas" is true ...

Your point is unclear to me. So facts are not true propositions? That "the dog has flees" is true, is not a fact?

Well, no. Language can say lots of things that are not facts. I don't have a dog, for example, but I can use "My dog has fleas" in my posts. The facts...

"And objects"? I'd taken it that the world in the Tractatus is all that is the case, not a collection of simples. That is, the difference between Russ...

What?

Cheers. Fixed. A parenthetic, rather than qualitative, use, rendering the sense less clear.

An excellent OP. This is very close to Mary Midgley's idea of philosophy as plumbing. We don't need it until things start to leak or smell. Midgley's ...

"My dog has fleas" is a sentence, and not a fact. That my dog has fleas is a fact. That the sentence "my dog has fleas" is true is also a fact. Now in...

That's the classical solution, that the Great Goat eats everything but is itself uneaten. Hence the heresy in the argument that: Goats eat everything,...

I can tell you how I understand the text, others will differ. It is a complex piece, so it is best to have a secondary source handy to explain the ove...

Oh, my mistake. Transcription error. Thanks.

There's been some discussion on the issue. This is as Capra sets it out, taking on his version for discussion. There is the weaker version, "Goats eat...

Chickens, pfhhf. Everything is a goat. yet, Goats eat everything. Eating is asymmetric. That is, if A eats B, then B does not eat A. Therefore, There ...

Really? Always? What could that mean? A description is always a justified true belief? Too many. A description does not have to be complete (whatever ...

Ok, so set out the detail this distinction. Yes, I can. I will eat my lunch in a few hours. Are you claiming that this is not a description? I haven't...

That looks like a false analogy. A painting of a painting is still a painting. A fact about a fact is still a fact. Do you have an argument that shows...

The argument seems to be based on the somewhat odd idea that a description of facts is not itself a fact. You are trying to sneak god in again.

Yep. They are simply something we say about the way things are. Calling them "laws" does not imply that they are prescribed by some authority. The ety...

Interesting to see you working with Popper's logic. Yes, useful theories are those that rule things out. The classic example, as previously pointed ou...

Nice. Like the fridge argument against Pierce. Very clear. And were they right?

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus orders Commonwealth to drop charges against lawyer Bernard Collaery ABC News. How this will pan out with David McBride, ...

Fish. I didn't put frozen fish on the shopping order.

Have you noticed that the way you "experience" a tree is not the same as the way you "experience" 1? That seems to be at odds with your conclusion.

That's what I am inviting you to consider. Are universals things we find in the world around us, in the way we find this tree or this post? or are the...

There might be an error even here. Perhaps at least some of what you call "abstract objects" are things we do, not things we find. Let's take a look a...

The Austin article concerns universals, the topic of the OP. I suggested it to , not to you. What you do with it is not my concern.

Folk might enjoy Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy?. Working out how Chalmers is wrong is always amusing. Note the discussion on disagreemen...

Amusing.

Do as you like. But if you read the article your responses might improve. You, too, . Earl Grey?

@"Jamal" has kindly put me in touch with @"Streetlight". Happy to pass on any goodbyes. In the mean while, those who frequented a bar in Amsterdam som...

First, did you have a read of Austin's article? I think your questions might be addressed thereby.

Philosophy is not science. Advances in philosophy do not look like advances in science. But if you care to look at the discussion in the thread you me...

I suggest reading Austin's "are there a priori concepts?". It is the third paper in a symposium. Jstore has it. Austin's criticism of "universal" conc...

In my defence, it's simple stats. The chance of some engineer/science teacher claiming that the answer to some philosophical question is quantum is pr...

:wink: And this is the most recent of dozens of such threads. Habit? My posts here are in the main written while drinking my morning coffee.

Your potted history missed the joke. Oh, well. Rather, I had in mind Frankfurt' analysis of bullshit. My point, which seems to need reiterating, is th...