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Yes, I do not really want to follow your line here. I think it badly misunderstands what was said in the OP. My apologies. But the present discussion ...

Obviously beliefs could not be stated if there were no language. But that does not render them unstateable; after all, there is language. Curiously, a...

That's my life plan.

That is were we differ. Is it that, too? Is there something in the mind that is the belief, apart from the behaviour? Wouldn't that be a beetle?

Give me an example. ;) Beliefs held prior to language would be stateable, but unstated. That's not unstateable. Subtle, but I think worth noting. Hm. ...

I have a great respect for your understanding of Wittgenstein. What I find interesting here is how what you have said differs markedly from my own und...

Cats have beliefs. The question at hand is, what does that mean?

And what about when someone is not able to top themselves, and asks for help? Should assisting a suicide be legal?

Since I did not present an argument, yes, it is null. Sorry for disappointing you...

Neat metaphor. But it would be simpler to build the fire. No doubt that is what @"RepThatMerch22" thinks he is doing.

I don't have any substantive criticisms.

Yep.

Yeah, I'm not happy with the term disposition. An unstated belief is fine; an unstateable belief is nonsense.

This makes me edgy. There's something about beliefs arising non-linguisticaly that resembles beetles in boxes. You rescue yourself later in saying tha...

You asked for my thoughts. I provided them. I didn't call you a dick. I did say that someone who banged on forever about something that most folk are ...

There are two ways of reading this. In the first, I could read it as setting out in some absolute sense what belief is. In the second, I could take it...

That's the value of On Certainty. Would it have been as useful had he finished it? Perhaps not.

Understood. It's a good series, because it is not too far out of left field, but enough to make one think. New thread?

Always!

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/138421 Was it I who was uncharitable?

You gave that impression with your ill-considered reply to my post about Stella. It struck a nerve with me, obviously. I am a white, middle-aged, midd...

Very convenient. You will not have to listen to the voiceless.

It is, I hope, easy to see that the OP is badly flawed. In suggesting that poor people should have the right to kill themselves it seeks to solve issu...

Ah, Chris. Maybe it's not just about not ignoring folk, but actually listening and thinking about what they have to say. I urge you to have another re...

I am also an advocate of euthanasia. And if you read the article with care, you will see that Stella herself does not rule euthanasia out: "Before we ...

I gather you never met her. She took her role as a disability advocate very seriously, and is very highly regarded in disability circles. So yes, she ...

The myth of the Rational, Independent Man runs deep. The replies here might lead one to suppose that the thoughts of a woman with a disability were no...

As with @"andrewk"'s reply, I find that extraordinary. One thread through the article is that loss of autonomy and independence - loss of dignity - is...

Well, I agree. We will just have to wait to see what @"Agustino" says.

Are folk with disabilities to "other" for you to consider their opinions? I'm left to make such inferences, since you said so little.

That's quite an extraordinary statement. But here's the guts of it:

Maybe. Do I just see that I ought give the beggar a fiver? Perhaps. It's not out of the question.

Consider the perspective of those with disabilities. This gem is by Stella Young, who was a disability rights activist and journalist. She sparkled. D...

I'm not attempting to rebut anything you have said. After all, you have said so little. But since this is an international forum, it is worth my effor...

Behind this sort of liberal excess is the vague idea of the rational, whole, individual Homo Economicus. They are far and few.

So where now?

Oh, by all means criticise those laws and policies that are objectionable! If asked to list pressing political issues Dow Nunder, I would've suggested...

Indeed, it's not a rebuttal at all. Nevertheless, if there were someone who went on and on about polygamy, as if it was one of the most important issu...

sure. I can agree with that. It might be worth noting that polygamy is not at the centre of any larg scale discussion in Australian politics. So someo...

I went back to the first in the series. Beginning to understand externalism better.

I come from the land dow nunder. I concur that: 1. The majority can be wrong 2. That an idea is endorsed by the majority does not imply that it is eit...

NIce. I had to grit my teeth briefly here: at the mention of labels being perceived. Words are not just labels; that is implicit in their not being ju...

Good article. Very Wittgenstein.

The most curious case I am aware of is the use of falsification in defining science in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education. Which brings us to the d...

Hang on- So you are saying there is a scientific method that is not algorithmic. A scientific method without rules. You had best tell us what it is, t...

Here perhaps we have some real fat to chew on - good reply. If our attitudes are only prior to our conceptualisation, how is it that our conceptualisa...

Hmm. I don't really see even the distinction as of central importance to Wittgenstein's approach. At the least I would like to see it argued for, rath...

I get it - there is well researched, academic evidence of a link between Peirce and Wittgenstein. But I am not obligated to read such stuff, nor have ...

I agree. But given @"Bacchus" request, I hope you might agree that it would be an ideal read for him. Bacchus requested books by authors with similar ...

Feyerabend thought that by rejecting the hegemony of method he would free science to become a source of much wider social good. His error, as with muc...