As there is a difference between what a rock is and what a rock does, there is a difference between what a concept is and what a concept does. I agree...
Not a problem, I am appreciating the opportunity to learn more about Wittgenstein. On the one hand is the Augustinian view of ostensive definition, wh...
I agree that some concepts can be rules, such as “do not touch”, but some concepts are not rules, such as freedom, tree, happiness, colour or more/les...
I’m curious how Wittgenstein can reduce the third realm of sense (presumably language) to an interaction between the second realm of psychology (presu...
That there is a rock lying on the floor is not proof that the rock caused the window to break. It may be evidence, but not conclusive evidence. That s...
On the one hand, a rock can hammer in a nail, such that what a rock is is different to what a rock can do. On the other hand, as you point out, a hamm...
Let the concrete principle be “don’t touch a hot stove” and the abstract concept be “touching a hot stove causes pain”. A logical structure can be tho...
In PI 43, Wittgenstein wrote “the meaning of a word is its use in the language.” We could apply this to chess and say “the meaning of the rule of cast...
From Wikipedia - Concept I have never thought of a concept as a logical structure with formal rules. For example, if I think of the concept of a slab,...
It is possible to refer to hidden things. For example, if I see a broken window, I can say that something caused it to break. What caused the window t...
Person A sees a beetle in the world which causes a thought in their mind of a beetle. It may be that when they see a beetle in the world they also see...
If I understand: My concept of “slab” must be similar to yours, but cannot be the same as yours, because we have experienced different Forms of Life. ...
That is true, there needs to be a learning process in order to learn what an utterance means. On the first day, the builder says “niletee ubamba” to t...
I see what you mean. There is the universal aspect, in that the function (meaning) of a word is to be used in a language game and there is the particu...
If some says to you “niletee ubamba", how do you use that statement, act on that statement, if you don’t know what it means? Can you give a practical ...
If someone says to you “niletee ubamba”, how do you know If you are meant to act, and if you know you are meant to act, how do you act? Because I know...
There is a problem here with language, similar to Cargo Cult Thinking, where a person might mimic the usage of a word without understanding the underl...
P2 was intended to be Wittgenstein’s view, but I can reword: P2 Language is a set of words having meanings, where the meaning of a word is its use in ...
I agree that when we are in pain we do not need to decide the truth of the statement “I am in pain”. Being in pain can cause the behaviour of grimacin...
P1 - “The meaning of a word is its use in the language” P2 - Language is a set of words having meanings. C1 - The meaning of a word is its use in a se...
That is how I see it. Part of our thinking is innate and part of our thinking derives from language and society, meaning that some circularity is unav...
In our Form of Life is going to the theatre, but we only go because of our inner feelings, not because other people are going to the theatre, or becau...
As I see it, your approach leads into the problem of circularity, whereby the meaning of the statement “I am in pain” is fixed by the language game, a...
There are inner feelings, language and social life. But we would not have any language if we did not have inner feelings and we would not have any soc...
====================================================================== We can only understand language extra-linguistically. When someone tells me “br...
Wittgenstein's and the Phenomenologist’s approaches are quite different. For Wittgenstein, he starts from the viewpoint of a public community and asks...
Without inner feelings there would be no Form of Life. There would be no social activities such as playing football, no cultural events such as going ...
If we felt no xyz, pain, hunger, thirst, fear or love, then there would be no need for a language. In language, we say things such as “I feel xyz”, “I...
As you say, both Criteria and Cause are important I agree that if a person is motionless and says “I am in pain”, we can often assume the Cause, their...
If people had no inner feelings, then there would be no language games. It follows that we have language games because we have inner feelings. Therefo...
I touch a hot stove, flinch and say “I am in pain” There is the hidden cause, an unobservable mental state, being in pain and there is observable beha...
The builder says to the assistant “bring me a slab”, which is part of a Language Game and whose meaning is in a particular Form of Life. On a construc...
Language can be philosophically misleading as language uses figures of speech which within philosophical investigation should not be taken literally. ...
Thank you for your new Thread. A thought that I have had for a while about Wittgenstein. If a person said “I am in xyz” and did nothing, the word “xyz...
Seems clear. If people had no private sensations - having a headache, feeling pain, feeling hot, smelling something, seeing something, tasting somethi...
A thermometer is put into water. When the thermometer reads 10deg C, the water is given the public name “cold”. When the thermometer reads 30deg C, th...
Step 1 - If I perceive the Sun, and my perception is veridical, there must be a Sun in the world Step 2 - If a DR perceives a Sun, they know that the ...
DR says that they directly perceive the Sun If the DR says that they directly perceive the Sun, then it logically follows that it is their belief that...
When the IR says “I see the ship indirectly” the word “indirectly” is not referring to the space between the person and the ship but rather is referri...
As far as I know, DR is exactly the claim that they know what initiated the causal chain. In our example, they claim that they know the Sun initiated ...
As an IR, I agree. But how does the DR know what initiated a causal chain when such knowledge is a logical impossibility? ============================...
In Ordinary Language, we say “I see a ship”. In Philosophy Language, the Direct Realist says “I see a ship directly” and the Indirect Realist says “I ...
How does that work? I am acquainted with an apple in the world even if I cannot describe it? ============================================== If the law...
:up: Ordinary language As the SEP article on Fictionalism points out, ordinary language uses figures of speech, metaphors, exaggerations and fictions ...
That is why posts on the Forum get confused when people mix up ordinary language and philosophical language. The expression “I am a Direct Realist” wo...
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