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The leg is a leg before the lamb dies; and it remains a leg after the lamb dies. Ergo, it survives death. SO it seems you have more in mind when you t...

Citations?

What you see as seamless has perhaps been a great division amongst philosophers.

The erudition and the depth of knowledge you display leave me nonplussed. I'll leave you to it.

Seems to be so, looking at many of the posts hereabouts. I listened to an interview with George Friedman last night. He believes that somewhere in a g...

It is a description and it is used to identify you? So it is a description and a use? Is the meanign of "Asif" given by what it describes, or by how i...

The name is a description of the sound? Further, it's not used to describe you, it's used to identify you. But that can't be right, if "Asif" is a des...

Going back to this... Your claim is that all words are descriptions. But here I'm puzzled - is "the" a description, or just part of a description?

Hm. Does "Asif" describe your name, as you claimed; or is it your name?

Hm. Shouldn't you say it describes your name? But that would be odd... since it is your name. If I said "'Asif' contains four letters, that would be a...

Oh, no. I think you have not been looking. What does "absence" describe?

Good, good. Now, what does "Asif" describe?

Then we can move to more obvious problems, like what "nothing" describes...

Glad you are enjoying yourself. Now, what does "emphasis describe? What about "it's"? "an"? "of"? and so on.

Ah, I see. It's just that you have added nothing new. All I could do with you is make a few bad jokes. But if you like: what is it that you think the ...

Might leave it at that then.

It was an oblique reference to Philosophical Investigations §66. One is tempted to conclude some general theory as to the function of language - that ...

This is the sort of thing one concludes when one does not first look.

I found that difficult to follow. But then I don't see much use in the type/token distinction. It seems to me to introduce unnecessary metaphysical en...

Ah, so yo do see the distinction! Hope remains. So if I propose "I had oysters for lunch", am I talking about oysters, or something else - perceptions...

I'll contend that any explicit definition will be inaccurate.

A leg of lamb survives death and transmigrates into another body... So a leg of lamb is a soul? Or have you more to add to the definition?

What is a soul? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/440584

...because I havn't seen a coherent account.

I don't. I think it incoherent.

You didn't look at the article.

A philosophical one, perhaps? I'm just unsure what to make of this. I would not call any discussion that forgoes reason philosophical. Religious, perh...

Is it wrong that you preference understanding over reason?

So, on to "what is the totality of human being?" My armchair might no lnger be part of the soul, but I still am. Hence, you remain the kind of soul wh...

If you reject reason, understanding becomes a much easier.

But if soul is the totality of being, so are you.

One eats oysters. Unless, apparently, one is @"Isaac", whereupon, displaced by philosophical contemplation, one only infers or perceives that one eats...

If you like. I don't see that that helps.

I don't see how including my armchair in the soul helps.

Ah, you preference understanding over reason. That'll be why, then.

A good reply. Education is a problem everywhere.

...and the soul is...? You will need to set out what more there is to the soul than just "what is reincarnated"; else you will have a quiet tragically...

Indeed; @"Isaac" seems to go astray here. This is very strange. It's oddly parallel to Stove's Gem: we only have access to our inferences about the wo...

There is a distinction between the statement "there is a fire in the next room" and the assertion "there is a fire in the next room.

...answers on the back of an envelope in ten words or less.

The root source seems to be from A Defence of Common Sense Now I had previously taken this to be an early reference to self-deception (@"Isaac"?); but...

'tis odd. The main reference in SEP's biographical article is to Philosophical Investigations, II(x)! A friend provided a copy of Replies to my critic...

Insofar as this presupposes that there is a "right understanding of (a) word", I think it muddled. After all, what sort of thing could that "right und...

...and hence vulnerability. Not the natural habitat of the cis hetro male. There's an oddly evolutionary approach in The enduring enigma of reason.

Ooops... I read it already. Then again, out loud, to Mrs Banno. The saying falls away, leaving the showing. But then there is the doing. That's the po...

So I find myself wanting to reply to But he hasn't said anything that relates to the podcast or the discussion, and hence there's not really anything ...

This, and the associated posts, have been a pleasure to read. Would that I had your forbearance. An episode of the Philosopher's Zone addressed a rela...

Sure. Not sure that the differences are substantive. There seems to be agreement that, roughly, if one does not believe what one asserts, then one is ...

Isaac throws out reality every second day. Perhaps some form of idealism goes with his predilection for psychology. But plainly there is a simpler sol...

...as if that were an option.