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I don't see an issue. What am I missing? Hinge propositions are indubitable, and hence true. Hence they have a truth value. The argument is that the n...

Oh, ok. SO you are saying that "god cannot be incoherent" is not placing a limit on god? How's that? I can be incoherent. Why can't god? Have I a powe...

Oh, yes indeed. It is an contrivance grafted post hoc onto the apparatus - a bit like the private language argument. The plain way to make his point m...

SO, god cannot be incoherent? But you said he could do anything. :lol:

There's nothing here with which i would disagree...? "This counts as a hand" might be. Use is what counts. SO in so far as Moore was setting up a lang...

Since god can friddling a bleth - that is, do things that are not things - then arguments about god are not limited by mere congruity; they are not ev...

SO he can friddling a bleth? That's settled, then. Thanks for the chat.

But god can do anything... Are you dropping that now, and saying he can't friddling a bleth?

Keep going. Tell us again how god can friddling a bleth.

"Work sets you free". And she says I'm right wing.

...an argument, yes, indeed.

Oh, I understand. In your view god can friddling a bleth but chooses not to. By your account, if god can do anything, then god can even do things that...

Cheers.

Ok. Again, where is this leading? I gather that you do not think "This is a slab" a suitable example of a hinge proposition, but I am unable to see wh...

Yes. Not sure what this means. Bringing a slab is not an explanation. Yes. The question on this thread is "What is a hinge proposition", so I gave an ...

Good. Then he will have no trouble friddling a bleth. And we are left with the observation that your approach is quite literal nonsense.

Choice. Perhaps the reason you are so upset is because you realise the inconsistency of your view.

But that is not a proposition, it is a command. And further, it will not work unless what you call a slab is the same as what I call a slab; it will n...

My expectation? What I have done is point tot the incoherence of your statements. If that made you uncomfortable, look to yourself rather than to me. ...

Sure. What turns on "This is a slab" is the whole process described in the game. A better parsing would be "This counts as a slab". This is implicit i...

Sure, one can choose not to play one game or another, or to change the way the game is played. But it is not possible not to play any game. Even being...

What other impossible things could he do? He could hit a six in golf.

God can do anything, so he can castle in a game of chess, after moving his king, but so it is not cheating...

Can god castle during a game of drafts?

Hey, @"Bartricks", just out of curiosity, if God can do anything, can he score a goal in tennis? Or can he score a hundred runs in Chess? What about a...

Probably.

It's not that simple. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/whats-intersex https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...

So... ask.

SO what? Yes, the assistant has to learn that "Block!" is a command, and how to respond. Where is it you think your argument leads? What's the point o...

Sure. Note that "doing the correct thing" with a block rests on the hinge proposition "This is a block". Again, the assistant can't even get it wrong ...

Might be better if you did. For the assistant to be mistaken in bringing a block when commanded "Slab!", This must be a block; This must be a slab. Th...

You appear to be, most adamantly and at superfluous length, agreeing with me.

That's not a sentence. And even if we make it a sentence: 'If the game only occurs if "this is a block" is indubitable it is equally true that it only...

Have you a point here? Or is this just idle chat?

It's part of the discussion of 6.37. I think you may have miss-used it. Wittgenstein is saying that physical laws are not logically necessary, contrar...

Doubt a command? Commands to not have truth value. IF the assistant brought a slab, then they have made an error. IF the builder asked for a slab when...

No.

All you have demonstrated is you incapacity to parse simple sentences.

TLP 6.371... :wink:

Necessities.

Wittgenstein was saying that the laws of nature are not logically necessary - that they are contingent. Look at the context.

Demonstrate that.

Go back a few steps. PI §2 What would be the hinge propositions here? "Here is a bock" "Here is a slab" "Here is a beam" Compare: "Here is a hand!" Th...

I'm not interested in your clock. It's led you into a flytrap. I've pointed to the exit.

Might just drop this off here...

Searle develops a not dissimilar account based on speech act theory. It goes along the lines of there being sentences of the form "A counts as x in F"...

Nelson Mandela - Reflections on Working Toward Peace Interesting.

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"Hinge proposition" is not a term that Kenny uses; if you wish to cut to the chase, look for "Certainty" and "Doubt". Will take a look for your essay.

I suppose it must be related, at least in some minds. There was an article being discussed here that seemed to be arguing that there were "animal" pro...