Hmmm, true. But just because it is not a popular issue doesn't help here. All that we know and accept as true was once not popular. You know, it reall...
It is an interesting way to think. But the "institutions" are in some relation of connectivity to actualities, even though the very idea of an actuali...
The mystical cannot be true or false because this is a feature of propositions, not states of mind or existential encounters. It is what is said about...
How does a clarinet sound? Of course, you can describe this, but this would be a contingent description, relying other said things, each of which woul...
No no, Banno; you simply have it all wrong. The Tractatus is not a biography: "6.522 There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They mak...
And yet, there are all those occasions where he acknowledges what is "there" to be left "as it is". This is why I take him up in a discussion about in...
Well, you should know that Wittgentein's falling out with Russell was all about the latter's failure to understand that the Tractatus' importance was ...
Not sure about the point. Obviously, science's problems are not philosophy's. Scientists continuing "doing what they are doing"does nothing to address...
I find that rather unresponsive. No, I've read it, but I'm not going fishing because you can't find a fitting response. If you have a position, state ...
All I have ever asked of analytic philosophy is to simply tell me how foundational matters are worked out. Because materialism, even Strawson's Real m...
Yes, and I agree with the forward looking pragmatist's thinking on truth, knowledge and thought. But he knew where this kind of physicalist talk takes...
The question then is, do Einstein and the rest provide an explanatory basis for philosophical questions? No, I say, simply. His naturalism leads to st...
I am asking myself, do I want to read Formal and Transcendental Logic? Yes. But do I have it. No, but I'll get it. I'll read it and get back to you. A...
You think like this because you likely think like Quine and his ilk think, that scientific models of what things are and how to talk about them are mo...
Interesting to note that 'logic' is itself a particle of language. Interesting because when drawing distinction between words and logic, one has to be...
I mean something much more basic: there is nothing that is free of logic, simply because to have an idea at all, fact or fiction, is to have this with...
Regarding the first, of course it sound definitive. I think there really is a definitive approach to the discovery of what a human being is at the lev...
No, not really. Analytic philosophy began WITH Wittgenstein, following Russell. Russell thought Witt was a mystic and they parted ways on this matter ...
Most emphatically. He cares little for moral principles in the way they replace the earnestness of real experience. Perhaps he is even close to Nietzs...
I do like this way of putting it, for it opens up the issue. Those in the cave facing the shadows on the wall turn around to see that actual figures p...
?? It is clear that ethics cannot be put nto words. Ethics is transcendental. (Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.) (Tractatus 6.421) An index...
Anscombe was professedly not a phenomenonlogist, and was an analytic philosopher. You think she is aligned with the outrageous things I said? Just for...
And reason is an abstraction, that is, something about our existence that is taken up in analysis. and all of our categories are like this. There is n...
Too much writing, I know. You can pick and choose. Some repetition here. I was busy and forgot what I was doing, a bit, when I came back to it. But th...
No, no. Ethics IS the matter on the table for talk about ineffability. In fact, it is the major theme. The point about the person who has the distinct...
There are people who come into existence just to suffer. Indeed, if we had a hedonic accounting of all who suffered, and could compare who had what an...
I don't mean there is no purpose to it. I just mean its purpose, the analysis, is not manifestly practical. The purpose, I believe, of philosophy is t...
Language is both what reveals the world, and what tells us to bracket the world. As I see it, the difficult time that philosophy has in trying to deal...
Consider, from Culture and Value: What is Good is Divine too. That, strangely enough, sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the S...
Depends on the meaning. Do you mean dictionary meanings? We live in an interpretative world, and such meanings are indeterminate. Take a "spin" (it ca...
Okay! I can't help but argue though. For me, as I grow older, the matter is exactly the opposite. I simply must understand why oh why we are born to s...
But Wittgenstein was not turning away like this when he went to war. He wanted to know this experience, at the front line, something he made formals r...
Put aside historical references. It will only confuse. Think of the differences as they are laid out before you here, in the argument. Yes, all very p...
Bracketing should not be looked at as a logical procedure, I argue, as if the object can only be seen if language contributes nothing to the perceptio...
But value as such is not very mysterious and no one likes to talk about it. What is it, in the final analysis, that makes bad things bad and good thin...
I think religion is just as amenable to knowledge generation as anything else; it is just that religion needs to be rendered clear in terms of what it...
Not sure I follow. As I see it, materialism takes what is a metaphysics of the Real of "out there" things, and applies it to mind, affectivity and moo...
But the evolving he has in mind follows science's lead. Causal explanations of psychology are to be sought in physiology, of physiology in biology, of...
Sorry if this is hard to follow. I guess a person eventually becomes the what he reads. My take on religion and philosophy is at a glance, pretty simp...
I understand what you're saying about language, but brain talk used to explain language's limitations has a serious problem. I won't labor the point, ...
Sorry about that. Henry is pretty out there. The basic philosophical idea is this: When you face the world with understanding, it is not that the worl...
The first—“so much appearance, so much being”—is borrowed from the Marburg School. Over against this ambiguous proposition, owing to the double signif...
The rub lies in the justification. What are you tryin to justify? What is being argued here is simple: how is it that epistemic connectivity can occur...
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