Now here's an example of speakers - or in this case writer's - intent against meaning. My intent was to crystallise my thinking of Wittgenstein by hel...
The first paragraph, yep; with a footnote that meaning is not wholly the speaker's intent. To the second paragraph, interesting trunk analogue, but I ...
It's common to claim that 'mercans don't do irony. It's not true, of course. They just don't do it all the time. And sarcasm is irony with a dose of t...
Early on, Wittgenstein encourages us not to think about, but to look at, how words are used. This is for me his main attack on the referential theory ...
The article in the OP praises Wittgenstein's writing style. I guess it's clear enough, if one compares it to other Germanic philosophers. But Austin -...
Dude, asking for the source is not making a personal attack. You said Wittgenstein in the PI said metaphysics is incoherent. That's at odds with my re...
It's easier to understand "meaning is use" by treating it as a philosophical method. When a question of meaning arrises, look at it instead as a quest...
Unimpressed. I looked it up; took me two minutes. There are two mentions of metaphysics in PI. §58, where metaphysical misuses of "red" are discussed;...
That's a bit to quick. He did think that there was not much of import that could be said about metaphysics, but he did think it of the utmost import. ...
It's nothing sensible. If you look over that discussion you will see that it shows your position to be incoherent. But of course that will not stop yo...
My cynical side uses this to explain why he is not popular amongst professional philosophers. They do not wish to do themselves out of a comfortable c...
The problems are there before the philosopher arrives on the scene, sure. The role of philosophy is to sort through conceptual confusion in order to s...
The sheer joy of proving that I am the only observer in the world, for example. Or that everything had a beginign, or that it didn't. That you can't g...
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