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So a standard analysis would be something like: The butcher delivered the meat If the butcher delivered the meat then you ought pay for the meat You o...

Broadly that's a good summation. What counts as a brute fact seems ot Anscombe to depend on what one is doing - think of Wittgenstein's discussion of ...

Yes! So we perhaps agree I think on a method - read the detail with an eye on the overall argument. I read her as rejecting law-bound morality in favo...

Yeah, I know. But the quality of this forum keeps dropping. There are maybe a half-dozen who actually have a proper go, like reading the article befor...

I'll let that rest here, in suport of my previous comment.

that’s what I’m doing. I’m enjoying her humour, although it is stuck-up, stifling English.

Sure. But your other posts have demonstrated your lack of insight, so I don’t much care what you think.

Ah. That explains a lot.

...and that's just as circular.

That's quite circular, and hence not an explanation at all.

You learn what true is by learning about false.

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/2567359/mod_resource/content/1/anscombe%20brute%20facts.pdf I'm thinking of basic facts as those presuppose...

Yeah, one might suppose that you just made up this intuition to fill the space left by the removal of a commanding divinity. This is a key change for ...

Yeah, nuh. She's well versed in Wittgenstein, so I'm reading this as a variant on the private language argument; that is, one cannot make sense of fol...

Nice start. It'd be best to keep an eye on the big picture while examining the detail. I'm reading this as sympathetic to Aristotle, as the author of ...

So she doesn't spoon feed. You averse to complexity? You in the wrong forum.

So would you be willing to defend your view here, in a discussion of the article?

Such as... (It's important, because you will be replacing a divine lawgiver with a necessary one...)

That stuff you are doing on your keyboard, I don't think you've quite got it worked out.

Try reading the very first few pages of a physics text, the basic mechanics stuff. You are embarrassing yourself here.

What crap.

That whole anthropological legend is apocryphal.

nonsense. It's not just that you are wrong, but that also you are not even not wrong.

Start with a poor definition and that's the soet of mess you get into, See, instead, number.

Yep. And, it is wrong.

:wink:

I remain astonished at you propensity for misunderstanding.

Here's the first paragraph from the history section: You do not need to be an expert on Analytic Philosophy to improve on that second sentence! Go on,...

Ha! You couldn't have chosen anything more appropriate!

http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/absurdHero2.png

That's gotta be an improvement...

But a trillion trillion is uncountable, too, in that sense. It's like there is a wilful disregard for the mathematics here. See the slide to: That's b...

Not interested. My dance card is full.

I don't agree. It's a style that overlaps other approaches to philosophy. Please don't make stuff up about me.

That's demonstrable bullshit; Read history of philosophy.

It's what I do.

? and ?+1 are the very same. That follows from the definition given above.

Certainly shows how analytic philosophy can be charactured.

Yep; there is more than one infinity.

Yep; Infinity is an unbounded quantity that is greater than every real number (Wolfram). One would think it not too difficult. But it seems...

Yep; but apparently this is too brief.

Too wordy.

Might it be because the poor shoulder the greater part of the tax burden? But that's not something folk want to talk about.

Please put the post above in the Talk page or better, just Be Bold and paste your new intro in to the beginning. I will follow up your edits with a fe...

SO, go fix the article. Be Bold - all you gotta do is click Edit.

That works for me, although doubtless it is a post-hoc rule. Nice.

And, surprisingly, it works - @"SophistiCat"?

Here, I can be as biased as I like. In the other place, it's different.

Come have a go. If you fuck the wikipedia up badly the real experts might get angry enough to do something about it. I still think the folk here don't...

:razz: I've done seven years time; plus that funny little bit were I got confused and did a course on entrepreneurship majoring in Ancient History.