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Sure, but think in terms of what we are doing rather than of meaning, and see that language is a part of what we are doing. It's what we do that is so...

By all means, fill that in. I suspect time only enters in a secondary sense, since use occurs over time. But it also occurs over place.

Yep.

Not sure what you are asking. It's not an either/or choice; the notion of intent found in Phenomenology comes into theories of naming, for example. I ...

Lest the relevance to the OP be lost, notice that the account of being given in the tradition of Frege, Russell, Quine and so on does not depend on ti...

If we are talking about folk you might expect to meet in the street, or read about in history books, then "Frodo doesn't exist" says that the name "Fr...

Sure, the games are recursive. Next?

So I suppose I am granting two ways of talking about being. The first is exemplified in ?(x)f(x), Quine's The second extends Quine's logic to allow fo...

Sure. Putting the pieces on the board is what Go consists in. But setting the game up is not playing the game; we need to keep track of which activity...

Who, as I said, got it from Husserl. I'm not much interested in who said it first, so much as who said it best - the point is to be clear about what i...

It's a property of properties, in one way.

What is the subject - following Frege? Is ?(x)f(x) to be understood as a relation between things that f and existence? I don't see that. ?(x)f(x) says...

No. That's wrong. Rather, in predicating to something one assumes that the something is there for discussion. "The cat is on the mat" presumes a cat. ...

Ethics is fundamentally about how one relates to others. Attempting to base ethics on how one feels, on "physical stimulus", is an error.

That's a difficult post. Take: Seeming is what we do to things, isn' it? This says that they seem to themselves. And this: ...which is... It's not a h...

Perhaps the one useful thing in phenomenology is that the cat is only on the mat because we pretend it is so. We can pretend things that are true. Oh,...

So... One cannot simply walk into Mordor? :gasp:

Roughly, to be is to be the subject of a predicate. Harry Potter is a fictional character. A mental picture of an apple is not an apple. It's a mental...

Existence is not like being a video, or a simulation, or a story. Would you buy front-row tickets to a concert, with back stage pass and after-gig par...

"an abstraction"...? What's that? What sort of thing is an abstraction? "subject to an individual perception..." Do you often see nonexistent apples? ...

I have to object. But things are as they are. That's logic, not realism. Sure, we see things only through our own perspective. Concluding from this th...

These paragraphs become less troubling if one thinks of them as having been rethought between the early and the later Wittgenstein. The issue is that,...

Excellent example. A film that should, along with Life of Brian, be watched once a year.

I pretty much concur. I'd add that we can, and do, move terms from one language game to another. Doing this changes the use of the term, of corse, bec...

Will do.

Yep. Fine. I answered your question and you get all huffy. Odd. OK, that'll do.

I suppose that, like Catholicism, Rand might serve as an introduction to doing philosophy. Freeing oneself from such nonsense as an introduction to cr...

Hey, it wasn't I who advocated "living as much time (seconds from your whole life) with pleasant feelings" - that was your good self. Nothing wrong wi...

I do. It' just that of course the community is fraught with conflict and strife; but that doesn't make what I said wrong.

So a truly fulfilling life would be to spend all one's time wanking. Hence these forums, I suppose. Might go do some gardening.

Actually, on looking at it again, I wonder if we might do better. Consider my other suggestion: Assume a bivalent logic. Then this statement is either...

It's more like the build up to the first war, with sides being taken for reasons of testosterone-induced posturing rather than on the basis of signifi...

There's something very odd happening here. One more try, perhaps. You asked: I responded with: ...pointing out that whether one assigns true or false ...

Sure. Whatever you say. You are not replying to what I have written anyway, so why would I respond. Your posts are so far off target that they are irr...

Neoliberalism? I don't know to whom you are replying, but it is not me. Cheers.

I think there must have been some misunderstanding. You seem to have said that the truth value of the sentence given in my post is a question of taste...

Thatcher? How incongruous.

Nice graph. I noted that the information-based/information theoretical option scored only 24%. I don't see how.

Oh, this weirdness is entirely down to you. You took the conversation off in this direction. If that now makes you uncomfortable, doubtless you now re...

And only if you are the passive partner.

Not without dinner and flowers.

Hmm. That's not what one sees in No Exit, nor in The Look. Notice that transcendence of the ego is early work. Perhaps you find Husserl because you ar...

Well, I don't quite agree with this reading of Sartre; but I might be misapprehending what you are saying. For Sartre, the self (the subject in subjec...

It's plain that the leap from "this has a cause" to "everything has a cause" is unjustified.

Only if you allow it to. “you can always make something out of what you've been made into”

It's not at all clear what this might be. Being-for-itself is defined by choice rather than experience. Being-for-itself is found in the decision to t...

Sartre is just Heidegger without the affectation or naziism... That's not a criticism!

That's right - it's about expressing ideas clearly.

Then the relation between a cause and its effect comes adrift, and any cause can be attributed to any effect. That is, the usefulness of the notion of...

Me, neither. What about you, @"Joshs"? It's just that even if the distinction between the in-self and the for-itself is a remnant of Kantian dualism, ...