you're welcome. While I agree with you along lines of principles of rationality, if you have ever tried to have an argument about whether it is rainin...
That is because you started by saying that a desire for acts of kindness and love are not the reason people want to keep private experiences themselve...
Actually, we've had this conversation before, probably you don't remember. Anyway, that's an admirable MORAL virtue, but there is a problem extending ...
While I appreciate YOUR sentiment there, the general consensus of the human race has been in the opposite direction, but in my personal experience, no...
(At risk of getting in trouble) I did put the same text, with a few minor enhancements here, where I will be maintaining changes: http://www.yofiel.co...
I can understand that, and I've known people who found a lot of comfort in it, especially if they had early emotional problems, because it does allow ...
I don't know enough in detail, and all I could say is that he did change his mind about what he was saying, so what he said earlier might not be the f...
Well I could trust that to be true, but it is not W's point. The point is that when people are engaged in natural language, they are NOT attempting to...
Oh, well it is possible to interpret the private data,' being incommunicable, as solipsist. But what I tried to explain, via the analogy with cryptogr...
Well, I don't think 'sentiment' is quite the right word for it, but yes, his thought is that you have to possess an innate trust in there actually bei...
Ah! But not necessarily. I did explain that properly here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1349/wittgensteins-mysticism-or-not- Thank you fo...
That's a common misconception arising from early positivism. Wittgenstein actually is telling you that everything you ever thought was truth in your e...
Well, I will let W speak for himself on that. What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you...
What I did, with a little time, was roll up the prior discussion into a separate thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1349/wittgensteins-...
What I did was add a little clarification to these thoughts and put it in a separate thread here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1349/wittg...
W had an idea of intent and causality, but he did not agree that a theory of descriptions is necessary. He rather avoids topics like 'meaning' and 'me...
So here is how it works in w's theory: Alice is hungry -> Alice says 'Bob please bring in groceries from car.' Bob hears 'Alice wants me to get dresse...
Sure, here I'll explain the algorithm in simpler terms, by using a shared color code of modulo 10 base 2: Alice has private color code 100 Bob has pri...
Here is an illustration of a shared secret generated by individuals with their own private colors. Each one can still understand the other without kno...
I guess the only thing I have to add to that is, while I wake up, is that I also had a problem with W's mysticism, until I learned about how HTTPS aut...
Strangely, I just had a long conversation last night with another person explaining W's point, starting at the end of page 2 here. https://thephilosop...
Now I again have to point out that you are both overextending the cynicism of positivism. The significance of positivism is that it is possible for co...
This is a very common confusion about the issue of a domain of mind existing separate from a domain of matter. While you speak of energy, energy itsel...
This was a much earlier work of Dawkins. I did eventually find the model for the interaction on the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution...
Well, that does not run contrary to W's view. He would state that words are simply tools that we use as convenient, so if one word is useful to refer ...
Actually, as I did mention, I do happen to agree with you with respect to formal logic. However, in the world of real language, W does make a valid po...
Well, I think Wittgenstein's point here is that what you trivialize by saying 'it's just because language is flexible' is entirely the real issue abou...
I certainly would like to know more about that, but I think the above example clarifies the issue of 'mystical' existence. When you tell your wife 'it...
Well, I think his point is that language is an abstraction which is also defined by experience in an indefinable way, but Wittgenstein does everything...
lol, yes, but he doesn't say the world can be known. He said 'the existence of things in the world is mystical.' That's exactly what I said in less my...
The point which Wittgenstein makes is that there is no necessity for such 'matching up with things in the world.' That results from the error of think...
Well I am glad you understand the difference, but in Wittgenstein's case, it is fair to say his intent was not to claim meaning does not exist. Rather...
It's been a long time since I studied it, but I think Luke expresses this correctly. A language game does not need to attach 'meaning' to utterances, ...
Well I have written on this topic for five years now , and here is my obserrvation: anything which causes 2nd-amendment supporters to pay for everyone...
Well, Dawkins wrote a very good counter to that in his book the 'selfish gene,' and it is very easy to read, one can pretty well read it in a day, and...
Well, the first stage is splitting the argument of Thrasymachus into the view of the governor and governed. Socrates points out that they will not agr...
If you are looking for a slightly deeper explanation, you will find it in the creation myth, which holds that woman was created from the rib of a man....
My own opinion, which I dont think counts for much, is that it is rather pointless to argue philosophically when someone has a gun pointed to your hea...
that is the second topic ever written about in Western political philosophy, and this is pretty much the standard discussion of it within the last cen...
Typical knee jerk response. Who said ANYTHING about banning guns? If you look at the section "more guns, no less crime" http://www.yofiel.com/guns/916...
Sadly I cannot find evidence that what you state is true. I did provide some 20 charts incorporating 3,000 data points to draw the conclusion that the...
I am obliged to point out that the cases are not so isolated. According to the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, victims in homes d...
hahaha. Sometimes when I try to think about Kant, I get lost in another story of Borges' in Labyrinths - The tower of Babel. Somewhere in that library...
I am so glad to find an expert on this. Please could you update me, what is the current thinking on Austin's idea of performative utterances, and Ryle...
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