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It looks to me like you want your experience to be valued above the experience of "others". I experience it - that's truth. You experience it - that's...

There's a presumption that the experiences of the privileged are not to be questioned - certainly not in the way one can question the experiences of n...

The George Pell case shows the issue neatly. A well protected established white male against childhood recollections. The issue is not that lived expe...

§122 perspicuous. §123 "I don't know my way around" §124 Philosophy leaves language as it was found. And mathematical logic. I'm not so sure. I think,...

This reminds me of the apocryphal of Davidson saying his claims not so much defeat the sceptic as tell him to bugger off. You keep coming back to §98....

No you didn't, and it doesn't. But keep thinking about it.

A theory can always be redeemed by auxiliary hypotheses.

Two people facing each other over a set table: "You've got the knives on the left!" "No, you have!"

No, that's the Philosophy Forums.

Building a computer seems to require a universe in which to build...

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The value of philosophy? You want to know why someone would do philosophy, what they would achieve? If you have a choice not to do philosophy, don't. ...

Full stops. They are good. Learn to use them.

Now I am not a physicist, but I would remind us all of a conceptual issue that might cause misunderstandings here. We seem to have a situation where o...

This too "really is a form of language used actually in practise". It uses language to discuss a man who isn't there. Just like "assuming an ideal". L...

We share a language - OK. We share meaning - ...but here, how does shared meaning differ from meaning? A meaning that has not been shared... a meaning...

Yes.

So much for freedom of choice.

Meaning isn't use. But just about any question we might have regarding meaning can be answered by talking instead about use. And that just about is on...

Yep, well thought through. Thanks. I would like to see a thread called "What is a door?". Will you start one? The point of course would be to display ...

It's not shared so much as built. Even in Welsh.

Meaning isn't a thing. So it's not shared. Forget about meaning. Just get on with the discussion.

§121 A neat metaphor... Should we trust it? Orthography or orthografy? After telling us to take care with metaphors, he uses one.

I think of that skit as more Austin than Wittgenstein.

I chose faultless over perfect to indicate a language that was not " too coarse and material for what we want to say". Think of a language in which no...

Asking what it is that can't be said. Grayling, in the video provided by @"unenlightened", refers to this as the other , unwritten half if TI. Much of...

Ideal. A word no so much encumbered by baggage as buried in it. Your use of it makes your point obscure. Do you agree with Wittgenstein here?

A faultless language. Russel thought we could build a faultless language could be based on sense data. Wittgenstein I thought it could be built from n...

§120. Suppose our everyday language is inadequate to answer the questions asked by philosophers. We might consider constructing a new language in whic...

SO let's talk about it some more on this thread...

I don't think so. it is an observation I've seen confirmed over and over again. An odd fragility; an inability to see the irony of "I question the rel...

But significant enough for a thread. The privileged are blind to their own privilege.

There's no need to go al relativistic. One raindrop plus one raindrop makes one raindrop.

Belief

Meta is the one who involved the word "possibility" in this discussion. Wittgenstein was content to remove the practicality of doubt. When doubt becom...

Male tragic.

Where?

§118 Smashing stuff. §119 Philosophers get bumped on the head by running up against the limits of language. Ubiquitous quote.

Nothing.

§117 "This is here". Interesting. Compare to Moore's hands, and OC.

Not every post has you as it's focus. But welcome to the discussion.

A challenge? How butch! No, I'm not bothered. It was the place of your OP as an example that interested me, not the resulting walk up a garden path.

§116 in preference to grasping essences of abstract, philosophical concepts, look to their use in ordinary language.

You might add that I should decide if your OP is a simile or an analogy. In either case, it's use here is to show how such thinking can lead one down ...

He regularly volunteered to observe enemy movements from one of these: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/06/article-2274260-17605A41000005DC-197...

He disregarded meaning in favour of use. I don't see how this might be compatible with a segregation of expression and meaning. And it's a long way fr...

I was having difficulty summarising it. That was done by @"Fooloso4" at https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/261849.

Actually he is setting up a critique of the notion of a perfect analysis of language, and then turns that into a critique of his own work in the Tract...

Well, we might start by working through the books...