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Indeed.

Good to see you two have each other's company to enjoy. When you can be interesting, let me know.

Yeah, I'm always avoiding explaining Wittgenstein - over more than a dozen years and thousands of posts. Never mention him, that's me. Won't enter int...

Folk keep asking the questions that Wittgenstein answered, but refusing to read Wittgenstein. :roll:

Wittgenstein doesn't make use of essences; that's part of the point of rejecting meaning as stuff in people's heads, together with showing how what is...

How to talk to a science denier Not the best of interviews, but there are some cogent points here.

Did you read my discussion above with Cheshire?

Nuh. Have a read of Philosophical Investigations. Especially the first forty or so paragraphs.

But you implied meaning was a thing in your head. Immediately, the thing in your head is not the same as the thing in my head, and we do not have a sh...

Hm. let's see. Can you put something to use accidentally? Intent is built into an analysis of use. Indeed, there's a whole branch of work on the topic...

Seems as you are having difficulty following the plot. No worries. Keep thinking on it and come back when you are ready.

No, that's not at all what "meaning is use" is. Quiet the contrary, the meaning is found in the place of the words used in the language game being pla...

And what have you found out about her work? Is it her work with animal rights that is not useful? OR her work on global inequity? Or her feminism? Her...

Are you agreeing with Humpty or with me? You can't have both.

Indeed. Take a swatch of french grey out of the paint shop and into the sunshine, and it will be different. Which is the french grey you love? It does...

It wasn't a putdown so much as a request for clarification.

The metaphysics of poetry thread is leaking into the shoutbox. Or, more fashionably, Into the shoutbox from the metaphysics of poetry poor verse escap...

I've come back to your three long replies several times, trying to work out a suitable response. But I've just no clear idea of what your point is. Th...

...but no, you are choosing one use over another use; that being the effect it has on your friend.

Being certain is easy. Any fool can be certain. Demonstrating that your notion of French grey doesn't change - that'd be interesting. My point, exactl...

No, that's Wittgenspear. ...or was it Shakenstine?

ay, there's the rub: The meaning is the use.

...and then we ask Wittgenstein's question: How do you know that what you think of as french grey doesn't slowly change in your mind... so that what y...

I pretty much agree; as I said int he linked thread, "I love you more than words can say" doesn't say how much I love you, it shows it.

I hear Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramesses II; hence this is the "shattered visage"... https://www.worldhistory.org/img/r/p/500x600/3033.jpg.we...

Is it what Aussies call "Duck-egg blue"? The point is that despite it being indescribable, there are descriptions. A bit like "I love you more than wo...

...and yet the thread has 18 replies already. Bitch to a Mod if you are unhappy. ...and yet it is "more green than grey..." A "a deep, grey, twilight ...

She would perhaps agree. None of that detracts from her work.

Sure. She uses that status to improve the world for others. I don't see as problem with that. Do you think cunning is a virtue? Do you strive to build...

Who, me? I don't. But I have helped folk to learn to swim.

I think I've answered that: one is obliged to choose. The measure of a human is what they choose. Deontologists tend to pretend that there is a rule, ...

Deontology makes the mistake of thinking that there is a rule to which everyone must agree - usually on pain of being thought irrational - and that th...

In an iterative process, it won't matter where you start, the process will lead you in the right direction. You sound like a broken record. Who choose...

A quick trip home to see the kids in Sydney. Then back to Canberra for work. The rules do not apply to him. They are for other people. Why not bring y...

Dunno. The OP seems to have been sufficient to create a viable thread. The world is all that is the case. What is the case can be stated.

I'm thinking you'll see the benefits in the capabilities approach to virtue ethics, since your roll is the improvement for those in your charge - as i...

You will not see what is going on here unless you grasp the relevance of direction of fit. ...really? See how you demand a base? There's the problem. ...

See my comments regarding direction of fit, immediately above. Expecting a universal law here is a mistake. One chooses to improve some aspects and no...

There's something fundamental about ethics that needs attention here. Direction of fit. When you sat that the cat is on the mat, you seek to modify yo...

Yeah it does. See Nusbaum for my preferred list. If your point is that the list is not agreed on universally, then sure; you have to choose.

No, it's what I say it is. That follows directly from

What? No, forget it. I doubt it worth the effort to understand this non sequitur.

Oh, fuckety fuck, fuck off. I'm Australian. SO fucking get your fucking mind around the fucking fact that we fucking use that fucking word in every fu...

That's a very crude analysis. Not all naked women are fuck-worthy; and no all naked women want to get fucked by you. You talk as if she had no say in ...

You can't; because existence is a secondary predicate. That's the short answer. Of course there are complications folk can introduce, such as a first-...

:rofl: Righto - I'll leave you to it then.

Indeed, it does. But then: ...so you didn't learn the lesson - you are still talking about it. I have nothing in my pocket. You think I can take it ou...

OK. So... ...an expert with an opinion... ...so being an expert his evidence is very low grade. Ok, so you are arguing that we not trust Popper. Cool....

No, were are back at illformed; it's not false, it doesn't say anything. So the same goes for any deductions that one attempts to derive from it. Than...