Right, that's what sensation terms refer to and how we learn their meanings. A belief is about something: "I believe that..." What follows the ellipsi...
Non-linguistic beliefs are similar to a private language in that Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language apply equally to non-linguistic b...
The analogy that I drew between non-linguistic beliefs and a dormant life force was made in response to your question/assertion that without non-lingu...
How does it seem like this? Care to offer an example? Perhaps this is nitpicking, but in the feeble examples I can imagine, it usually seems more suit...
I agree - it wouldn't be properly called language. As Wittgenstein responded to his own question of whether he was really just a "behaviourist in disg...
Have you created any private words? What purpose do they serve? How do you know that you are using them the same way (i.e. correctly) each time? Why c...
It might be private, but how can it be a language, especially if the private aspect is what is not, or what is unable to be, communicated (per your de...
You have equivocated by referring to a rule as both a rule and your interpretation of a rule. Bullshit. You said previously that a rule is not part of...
Really? That's a change from your earlier position, where you said: "In reality, when a human being follows a rule, that individual holds within one's...
You're conflating the written rules with your interpretation of the rules again. Just answer me this: are the written rules the rules, or not? Or do t...
Except one of these is the rules, and the other is your claimed interpretation of the rules, yet you wish to call them both "the rules". On your view,...
That's not a fair comparison. If you were to speak nothing but gibberish (e.g. Forest the upon warmly eight marshmallow Lebanon it unicycle), then you...
You were talking about where the game analogy breaks down, but I still don't see how language is any different. The rules of both games and language a...
This is patently false. Board games don't exist? You speak about an individual person but games are more often played with/against other people, who t...
As I understand it, If it's indubitable then it can't be knowledge. For a statement to be classified as a piece of knowledge, then it must be open to ...
As far as I can tell, nobody here - including you - believes that the rules of language, knowledge and/or games exist as Platonic Forms. How does the ...
Okay, then I'm confused by you making a distinction between the existence of rules as man-made vs the existence of rules as Platonic Forms. Why make t...
That's different to what I responded to before where you said that if the rules of the game are man-made instead of existing in eternal Platonic Forms...
Consider board games that usually come with a written set of rules. These games are man-made, but this doesn't mean that anyone can use their "free wi...
There need to be languages in order for "it to be raining" to have meaning - the same meaning that you still want it to have without any languages. "S...
Unless you're an antirealist, as per the OP. I don't know what this means. Language has no feelings or desires, so everything is indifferent to langua...
Whether truth conditions are recognition-transcendent or not assumes an impossible viewpoint from outside our language games (and outside our recognit...
So, prescriptive rules ("commands of what one ought to do") are limited only to human actions, whereas descriptive rules are not so limited? Seems som...
Okay, but earlier you offered these two examples of "descriptive rules": But aren't these also examples of "prescriptive rules"? For example, doesn't ...
Your "descriptive rules" are not prescriptive then? Or are you conflating the two? Is an inductive conclusion the same as a "descriptive rule", or doe...
But agreement in form of life and agreement in convention are both of the same type: neither are agreements of opinion. Agreement in linguistic conven...
If a "convention" is simply "a way in which something is usually done" - which presumably includes the ways in which we are usually taught to do thing...
I realise that this is how you are using the term 'misuse', but this is not how I am using the term 'misuse'. You would be aware of this if you had ch...
I agree that we sometimes need to "adapt our use of words to the listener". But I disagree that using a perfectly sensible sentence that any fluent sp...
You stated that it is a misuse of words simply when others don't understand you. If this doesn't apply to toddlers and people with limited English ski...
What if the person you're speaking to is a young child or someone with limited English abilities? It doesn't seem right to label it as a misuse of wor...
I don't deny that the content of our dreams might sometimes reflect our fears or desires or whatever, but I don't consider this to be the main purpose...
There are also physical dangers when we don't get enough sleep. My view is fairly simple: dreams help the body to stay asleep and to rest. We need sle...
Philosophy is such a wide-ranging subject that I find it difficult to pin down what makes any film distinctly philosophical. However, some films do st...
It seems that you are tying yourself in knots trying to find contradictions in Wittgenstein's work. Firstly, I am confused by your use of the term "pr...
If you are saying that there is no context for the concept of language games, then I disagree. As Pneumenon said earlier, the context is philosophical...
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