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It remains to be demonstrated that hinge propositions are of the same type as propositions in general. Yeah, where is he? He was also arguing that hin...
February 18, 2022 at 03:17
It is valid reasoning. Seppo's argument is: All propositions (in general) are bearers of truth-value Hinge propositions are propositions (in general) ...
February 18, 2022 at 03:09
That would depend on how they differ. You cannot just assume that they are the same in the respect of being the same. Ya, that's my point. You've simp...
February 18, 2022 at 03:06
You're right, I didn't read closely enough. You said in your last post: You make a distinction here between hinge propositions and "propositions in ge...
February 18, 2022 at 00:55
What's wrong with the argument? A reminder of the definition that you introduced into the discussion: You have argued that a hinge proposition is a be...
February 17, 2022 at 12:28
I would say that the only “different positions” we can take wrt the truth or falsity of a proposition is that a proposition is either true or false. I...
February 16, 2022 at 06:03
93 shows that Wittgenstein is talking about Moorean (hinge) propositions at 94. 94 shows that hinge propositions are the background against which we d...
February 15, 2022 at 08:22
If you cannot acknowledge that ordinary propositions are not the same as hinge propositions, then it appears that you don't know what a hinge proposit...
February 15, 2022 at 08:19
Thanks for the link. Its opening paragraph states: So the article you cited in support of your claims does not limit the definition of a proposition t...
February 15, 2022 at 02:37
By the same logic, if it is a proposition then it must be justifiable, dubitable and capable of being known, because that is just what a proposition i...
February 15, 2022 at 00:32
But that is also in question here. Again, W does not refer to “hinge propositions” in OC. Also, if they cannot be doubted or known, then they are unli...
February 14, 2022 at 23:59
Unless you know of any other types, ordinary propositions are those which are not hinge propositions. Do you acknowledge that ordinary propositions ar...
February 14, 2022 at 23:55
Hence we know them? I haven’t made any such argument. I’m asking why they must have a truth value when they are not ordinary propositions and they are...
February 14, 2022 at 23:28
I don’t follow why you would accept that hinge propositions are not like ordinary propositions in the sense that hinge propositions are indubitable (a...
February 14, 2022 at 23:14
What reason is there to assume that hinge propositions are no different to ordinary propositions? It may be worth noting that Wittgenstein doesn't use...
February 14, 2022 at 22:57
As the horse is now dead, I would say that the horse no longer exists. Alternatively, an eternalist would say that the horse still exists in 1878, and...
February 13, 2022 at 11:54
You don't know what "both" means? Let's be clear: are you advocating a four-dimensionalist, eternalist view of time where time is a space-like dimensi...
February 13, 2022 at 01:01
As Moyal-Sharrock writes, from the article that @"Sam26" posted here: This also demonstrates that not all empirical statements can be hinge propositio...
February 10, 2022 at 07:02
My take, which will probably just be a terrible rehash of Moyal-Sharrock: I think it needs to be kept in mind that Wittgenstein is talking about empir...
February 09, 2022 at 11:53
Ask yourself that question. You have made clear your belief that O does not change in time, presumably due to its four-dimensional existence at both t...
February 09, 2022 at 07:04
To emphasise my point: You say that there is motion from (1,1) at t=1 to (2,1) at t=2; and You say that there is not motion from (1,1,1) to (2,1,2). P...
February 08, 2022 at 04:52
The “state” of a thing is its condition at a given time.
February 07, 2022 at 23:46
Then what has changed? The object being at t=1 and then at t=2 is also a change. How can you allow for the object to change position if you do not all...
February 07, 2022 at 05:33
You have still not answered the question of what an increase in the x-coordinate represents with respect to Banno's image or the hill. Of course it is...
February 06, 2022 at 03:13
Right, x=a. My point was that a-pixels of a given value are no different to their associated x-coordinates of a given value, because they are both ass...
February 05, 2022 at 08:21
This does nothing but replace x-coordinates with a-pixels. None of this explains what the increase (a+1 or x+1) represents or why there is an increase...
January 30, 2022 at 04:09
No. I'm asking what the increase in the x-coordinate - that you mentioned earlier - represents. This applies equally to your hill example. What does a...
January 29, 2022 at 02:14
This doesn't tell me what the increase in the x-coordinate represents. I imagine it represents something in space? I don't see why you've needed to in...
January 28, 2022 at 07:33
I’m asking you to explain this “approach” to the rightmost x-coordinate absent of time, so your analogy that includes time doesn’t help. You said earl...
January 27, 2022 at 19:49
It seems to me that you have ignored some of the more difficult questions I put to you, such as how a colour in Banno's image can "approach" the right...
January 27, 2022 at 06:09
How can the change have a direction without time? You said that the colour "changes over the distance from left to right". I think I understand what y...
January 26, 2022 at 07:16
Does it mean that you start on the left and end on the right?
January 26, 2022 at 06:25
I asked what you meant by it.
January 26, 2022 at 06:14
Either get engaged in the discussion or keep out of it.
January 26, 2022 at 06:09
What do you mean by "from left to right"?
January 26, 2022 at 06:02
You have variously referred to changes in the x-coordinate, distance, position and place. I have taken all these to amount to roughly the same thing. ...
January 26, 2022 at 04:53
That's great, except that (until now) you have been talking about a change in distance, not merely distance. What does it mean to say that there is a ...
January 25, 2022 at 21:29
One says "place" and one says "time". I invite you to also consider the idea of change-over-place (without time). In such a scenario, there is no chan...
January 25, 2022 at 05:51
I'm objecting to Banno's claim that there can be change-over-place irrespective of time. The question I asked you was: My question has everything to d...
January 24, 2022 at 06:54
I take it, then, that your interest here is not really to do with debates over the ontological nature of time itself, or perhaps even to do with the p...
January 24, 2022 at 06:34
Hell yeah it's in question. @Banno's original claim was that: That is, Banno has claimed that change can occur "from place to place" without time (bec...
January 24, 2022 at 05:48
It's a different example, so I don't see how my question is invalid. Because you said there was metaphorical motion. Unless you can actually move "pla...
January 24, 2022 at 05:22
As I noted in my first post and have re-stated a couple more times since: You still haven't addressed this point as yet. I won't hold my breath.
January 24, 2022 at 04:08
It’s your responsibility to clarify what you meant by “as you move from left to right”, not mine. You explained it as a “metaphorical motion”, which i...
January 24, 2022 at 03:14
What’s the right question? If the motion is metaphorical then the change is also metaphorical (i.e. not actual). I don’t know about “degree-of”. The m...
January 24, 2022 at 01:13
How can you “move from left to right” irrespective of time? Not to mention you are saying that it is “you” that moves or changes, not the image.
January 23, 2022 at 21:24
It's the same image I saw yesterday. Nothing about it has changed.
January 23, 2022 at 20:16
January 23, 2022 at 20:08
We were not attempting to define time or change. We were instead criticising Banno's bizarre assertion that "Time and change have no special relation"...
January 23, 2022 at 19:42