Oh, yes. A hangover of Aristotelian physics, used with ulterior motives. That's an important question. I agree that this is how it is often treated, a...
At the risk of actually addressing the OP, here is the paper: Should the numbers count? At issue is the justification for (P2). Taurek encourages us t...
An excellent topic. Perhaps the breadth of the issue will become apparent as the discussion proceeds. I'd suggest that the apparent way to cash out th...
Yes, yes, all true. Despite that, the shunning of Russia may be the only weapon to actually bite home. Is it possible that Russian involvement in glob...
That'll be it. In contrast, recent posts feed my inner curmudgeon. Or not so inner. My tongue is bleeding from my biting it. Mention of quantum indica...
If, on sitting down to a game of chess. one's opponent moves the rook diagonaly, you might at first try to instruct them as to the correct move. But i...
Indeed. A dialectic involves a topic and two people. If one of those people has a hopelessly twisted conception of the topic, the only recourse for th...
Your question was lost in the rush to mediocrity. The answer, of course, is that you cannot have one without the other; an assumption is an opinion, y...
The forum is presently dominated by fools with little to no grasp of basic philosophical or logical notions and yet with thoroughgoing confidence in t...
"Esse est percipi" grabs on to one part of the story and treats it as the whole. We learn what things are not by looking at them but by picking them u...
The commonest version of ontological realism holds the there are true statements about things that are not presently being perceived. If to be is to b...
The problem with Esse Est Percipi is that it is too passive. One also acts upon the world. While @"jgill"'s look shows that others exist, it's what yo...
That is not teaching. The curriculum is an irrelevance inflicted on teachers by meddling politicians, bureaucrats and wannabes. You are obliged only t...
Yep. Wombats, a larger, ground-dwelling relative of the Koala, are very territorial, have very poor vision, but an excellent sense of smell. As a resu...
Indeed, I've not the stomach for the argument. Reading Wittgenstein as anti-realist is a post hoc back construct; the term was invented long after his...
That's a bit sad. OC§607 sits in the context of a physicist giving evidence fr the boiling point of water... OC§202-620... It seems to me to be clearl...
It's clear the discussion here is not exegesis. You are on the right track here. There are two related language games, one in which statements are jus...
Indeed, for you. That is not how I, and others, read Wittgenstein. We read him, as pointed out, as saying that it is the justification that is faulty,...
Wittgenstein is arguing that Moore uses the word "Know" in "I know I have a hand" incorrectly; that what he might instead have said is "I am certain t...
Here you express an anti-realist view: Then: Yeah, might have to leave you to it for a while. Cheers. Edit: Had you instead said "it is not known to b...
Indeed, the term "hinge proposition" is the source of much of the confusion here. A hinge is a way of acting in the world, it is "animal"; but it can ...
Oh, take care here. For example, Kenny lists as one one the elements common to the whole of Wittgenstein's work, including the Tractatus, that "a prop...
Where did you conflate truth and belief? Right there. A proposition standing alone can have a value of true or false; but it is not a claim or a belie...
Throughout On Certainty Wittgenstein takes great care to keep truth, certainty and knowledge seperate. Wittgenstein also takes care to treat truth as ...
No, it doesn't, unless one also adopts an anti-realist view that is not found in Wittgenstein. Hence is correct. Conflating knowledge and truth is an ...
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