Banno

You wanted to know about the logic of truth. T-sentences do just that. That's not the same as asking what you ought believe about Covid-19. Investigat...

Sure, mention the illocutionary force of "it's true!" You know what's going on here; and I hope you know that I know.

Any such discussion must include Hannah Arendt. It's about our humanity, not about any deity. As with any ethical tale, god is irrelevant. Evil is the...

Almost... There's a way of understanding time that is not set out in a bunch of statements, but lived through. That's not something special about time...

You seem to be flapping in the wind. Anyhow, been while now since I proved time exists. How's that sitting?

...and here was me thinking this might be a thread about atheism...

Yep, there is a difference between "Neon does not know everything" and "Neon does not know anything". Just take more care next time.

You can't see it. I can't help that. https://i.pinimg.com/474x/8d/34/b3/8d34b3edef78a04315f191573330711a.jpg

Love it! "Thousands of Chinese people have corona virus!" "Yeah? Name one." :lol:

Virtual particles render something coming from nothing a physical commonplace. Particles pop into existence from nothing all around you, all the time....

...and yet you are proficient at using it. You can't tell us what English is, and yet you show it. Here's your game: use English to say that you do no...

A (psycho-) ceramic rainbow.

...here's something of Wittgenstein's On Certainty: doubt has a background of knowing. One can doubt that it is raining, but only if one understands w...

Yeah, you do - you just did, in using a sentence of English in an attempt to show that you know nothing...

:up:

See, what counts is not that a statement is objective, or subjective, but that it is true, or that it is false.

Yes, it is - that's part of the point. "...is true" is banal. It adds nothing to what has already been asserted. That it draws attention to this is a ...

This is so obviously, astonishingly wrong, that it is hard to know where to begin. Neon knows nothing about the language they use to construct the pos...

You could, but no one would care.

So... time before time is not a word game...?

And yet there it is in your OP. Oh well. That's not positivism, by the way.

...or it could be a true awakening.

Yeah. I'm adopting the terminology of the OP in order to undermine it. We can reject the language of the homunculus. Language games take place in the ...

No, he's not.

T-sentences were developed by Tarski and retargeted by Davidson. Not really that relevant here; except that they are exactly right. The "p" is a refer...

"p" is true iff p

I think that truth is quite easy. Indeed, simple. Un-analysable . I think T-sentences tell us pretty much all there is to know about truth. But there'...

Well... here is the thread...(pointing) The thread is not subjective... Again, I am arguing that it's wrong to suppose that each thing - thread, rock,...

That's the thing, isn't it - what counts as an object depends on the conversation. If I am playing word games, it's because that's what much of philos...

I just finished cooking a chocolate cake. True story. It's not in my mind. It's in the kitchen. Except for the bit I ate. I know what chocolate cake i...

I'm not following the distinction you wish to make. Lets take a clear subjective truth - I prefer vanilla milkshakes to most other flavours. Now the m...

What I was pointing out is contrary to this, from you: That the thread has parts - posts and words - does not render it any less.

OK - now, what is it that is being read out to you? The thread. Therefore there is a thread. What is it that is being translated? The thread. Therefor...

But that did address your argument.

Notice that this is no longer about what is true, but what is established as true. The conversation has surreptitiously moved from truth to belief.

List 'em, then.

Positivists?

...like a rainbow?

Perhaps you feel a need to ask these questions in order to compound your religious beliefs? One can imagine a cult worshiping the sublime mystery of t...

You will be aware of answers of the sort proposed by Hawking, in which infinite causes proceed asymptoticly within a limited time. You don't have to a...

This is risible.

@"Gregory" You might reconsider the approach your are taking to philosophical issues. Could it be that the words you use are misleading you, antigonis...

Well, it's been a whole since you asked this. And there is your answer.

Nice.

Rush Rhees in conversation with Monk - Duty of Genius. The exchange is with Rev. Wynford Morgan. Just after the "Don't ask, give" parable. Ch 22?

Well, yes, the stuff passed over in silence is of the utmost import.

He believed in god, although not the sort that is found hereabouts. When asked if he believed in god, he replied "yes, I do, but the difference betwee...

Hm. I would have said this was exactly wrong. Morality is mere codification; ethics is rational analysis.

Yep. It's what I do.

Threads such as this, in the main. There's so much confusion - I can't get no relief.