Even if your bare assertion that people often act in ways outside of conventions and unspoken rules were true, people more often act in ways inside of...
No, you haven't. Conventions, unspoken rules, and the unwritten rules of baseball are not impossible to be followed. These are all relevant rules. Our...
I'm not defining "rule" in some other way. The Google definition is of a rule in the sense of "rule-following"; a rule which can be either explicit or...
I don't know about "repeatedly". You didn't say this until the previous page (page 11). Before that, you had made the absolute claims that "a rule mus...
There's a delicious irony here: you demonstrate that you have understood my point that a rule can be defined as either #1 or #2 - as explicit or under...
What purpose? There was no purpose. Instead, you made these absolute claims: You make no mention of context or purpose here. Instead, these are absolu...
That doesn't answer the question. You clearly disagree with the dictionary definition which states that a rule can be either "explicit or understood"....
Are you saying the dictionary definition is incorrect? Try these: Convention_(norm) Unspoken_rule Unwritten_rules_of_baseball :roll: This is meaningle...
Children are often corrected when they learn to talk, by parents, teachers and others. They may not be taught explicit rules - that's my point - but t...
How is language use any different to these sorts of rule-governed activities? Language use is itself an activity that we are taught how to do, with ru...
It's only a website link, so not sure why it wouldn't work for you, but here it is again: https://www.academia.edu/42996392/Wittgensteins_grammar_thro...
Do these "more animalistic" forms of communication have rules? It's a simple solution for you to claim that language is necessary for rules but rules ...
If communication is a pre-requisite to learning, as you claim, then a child without language should not be able to learn, right? But children - who st...
It's not so black-and-white. You have to allow for learning and intermediate stages of development and capability. Children can learn the rules of gra...
It might be better to say that grammar is not easily surveyable, as in, not able to be taken in at a glance. Wittgenstein doesn't say much about it, b...
Wittgenstein's metaphorical contrast of "rough ground" with "slippery ice" are both found on the ground (obviously). Wittgenstein advocates a return t...
I agree. I was probably insufficiently clear that I had traditional (pre-OLP) philosophy in mind in reference to this desire for something "higher"; t...
I question whether it is necessarily a fear (e.g. of doubt) that motivates all skepticism or all philosophy. I think the philosopher's desire for an u...
I think family resemblances are more about a contrast to essentialism rather than representationalism. Having said that, I am enjoying the ambitious d...
How do you expand access and opportunity? Redistribution of access and opportunity does not work? People have to expand their own access and opportuni...
Isn't fairness a zero sum game? How can you make things fairer without increasing the advantages of the disadvantaged and decreasing the advantages of...
I believe the relevant quote - or, at least, the one I am familiar with - is this: The above link gives the source as "Letter to Besso's family (March...
Then why attribute this view to Wittgenstein and say that he “did not have available to him other ways of conceiving ‘thinking’”? AFAIK, Wittgenstein ...
You stated - or, at least, strongly implied - that, for Wittgenstein, 'thinking' is a "classical reflective cognition" according to which "one consult...
You've got a lot of work to do to demonstrate that Wittgenstein was committed to this (narrow) view of thinking or understanding. I'm not sure where y...
There are English teachers. Your position must be that there is no such thing as an English, French or German language/speaker because each individual...
@"Joshs" - your OP seems to be more about one's "subjective understanding" of a public language, rather than about a private language, as per Wittgens...
You appear to collapse the distinction between a public and a private language such that all language is private. Against what “field, ensemble or ges...
Sure, the model may have a use, but some people think it matters whether or not time actually flows when discussing the nature of time. Does the block...
@"Banno" doesn't recognise a distinction between the appearance of flow and actual flow, so he ends up logically excluding the possibility that the ap...
Right, so you are logically excluding the possibility that time passing is an illusion. In other words, you are saying that time must actually pass. I...
The news article states that "in the block universe model, time doesn't flow", so any appearance of time flowing in the block universe can only be an ...
Okay, but you are contradicted by the article which states: And you still haven't provided any support for your claim that time actually passes in a b...
It wouldn't look different. The only difference is that temporal passage is an illusion in a block universe. If the appearances may or may not be illu...
Obviously time appears to pass, whether illusion or not. But you seem to take this as some sort of evidence that we inhabit a block universe: It is al...
Yes, you said that already. What support do you have for your claim that: Pointing back to the article that states that "in the block universe model, ...
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