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Cheers. If you wish to understand Witti better, I would commend Anthony Kenny's Wittgenstein. A short book that covers the whole of his philosophy in ...

Ok, understood. Now what you have said does not mesh with what I understand of what Witti is describing. He is quite explicit in saying that what coun...

@"Garrett Travers" SO where do you think mysticism enters into this discussion? I'm not following your argument.

A difference to... What?

Yep. The accusation of mysticism might be a result of a misguided reading of the notion of silence, or of Wittgenstein's scantly articulated thoughts ...

Nor I; it's a poor representation of what Witti is up to. You might do the same. In the interest of avoiding mere acrimony, might we not agree that it...

Oh, ok. I'd be happy to take the rise in IQ as evidence of better diet and the recent "decreases" as normalisation. I'd be reticent to take it as evid...

And again, I will say that the anti-realist reading of Wittgenstein is not the only reading, and I think it mistaken. Firstly, it is anachronistic, si...

Yep. Wittgenstein was an engineer. He was responsible for the maintenance of heavy machinery during the first war, worked on wing design in England, a...

The paper uses a pretty common misunderstanding of Wittgenstein. Tell me, could you use the article for your argument while at the same time doubting ...

Yes, I am aware of all that. Are you just making conversation, or is there some relevance to the topic?

Well said.

Failure to keep the troops in line to pass the religious discrimination bill. Pilloried by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins. Insubordinate text message...

Yes. Roughly. Might post more on that later. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Again, the Liberal Party is an uneasy alliance between liberals and right-wing nuts. That alliance broke last night. Let's hope it becomes a chasm. Go...

Yes.

Ok, I'm not sure what is confusing. SO I read both Moore and Wittgenstein as realist - that is, as differentiating between something being true and so...

§94 is about one's picture of the world, not propositions. That picture is the background against which propositions can be seen to be true or false. ...

Yours is a simple demand, that folk conform to you expectations. In the end, the only genuine response to your posts is pathos. It is tragic that you ...

Cute. Have you ever noticed how folk will say god is incomprehensible, then proceed to tell you exactly what ti is that god wants you to do? How's tha...

And you would refuse to allow trans people to construct their identity, insisting that you do it for them. No; I want children not to feel so disenfra...

The shear hypocrisy of this is astonishing. You would refuse to allow trans folk to express their identity. You are imposing your preconceptions of se...

A rhetorical slide on your part. Change and cause are not identical.

What causes the appallingly high suicide rate amongst trans people, including children, is the failure of others to recognise and acknowledge their ex...

Balls. I'm talking about children killing themselves. Get that through your thick head.

That'd be because they are. It's why we have two different words, one for change, the other for cause. Thinking otherwise requires philosophy. You hav...

So that is what you think trans folk are like? That is what you would base your opinion on? Is yours an argument to refuse to acknowledge the existenc...

No. I meant the article I linked to in the sentence in which I mentioned it. Cheers. :grimace:

I linked directly to the article to which I was referring. Look: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/652160 I apologise for assuming you...

I was referring to the article you cited for @"Tobias", here; DO you need an explanation of the difference between an algorithm and an heuristic? Or o...

What article?

So... we agree that moral issues are to be solved heuristically, not algorithmically? Then I stand by the thrust of the post, that virtue ethics bette...

Sure, but "action and beginning are essentially the same"... The link between the capacity to begin and the capacity to act is apparent. The link to N...

@"Sam26" I can see nothing in On Certainty to support the contention that Wittgenstein thought there were propositions that did not have a truth value...

Did you notice my recent thread on an article by Arendt? In it she finds that the muddled notion of free will came about as a way of melding St Paul a...

That's obviously a different example. There are a few physical formula in which time does not play a role. Each of these is an example of cause withou...

I did. It isn't.

I was responding to the article you posted elsewhere rather than your comments here. I haven't, again, been able to make sense of your post. You disav...

So you want your propositional cake and to eat it... Perhaps this is an anti-realist bent on Wittgenstein. Reject antirealism and the bits fall into p...

I assumed an inclusive"or". But the possibility of both is worth making explicit.

That you are paying undue attention to the contents of other folk's underwear is terse, but right on point. It's not your business. You might have ent...

You seem to think that hinge propositions are neither true nor false... How can you validly make a deduction from a proposition that is neither true n...

What could that mean, i wonder?

Still overly concerned as to the contents of other folk's underwear, I see. Odd.

Twaddle. Change refers to an alteration in the state of a thing. Often over time, but as has been shown, not always. But that you have now introduced ...

A weight sitting on a cushion deforms the cushion. The weight cause the cushion to change over distance. Note that you have changed the topic from cha...

Yes. It occurs to me that these chaps thought well, but in a linear fashion, so the power structures tended to be hierarchical. It might be better to ...