My problem is: Sense and reference "Mark Twain" and "Samuel Clemens" both refer to the same thing in the world, although the names have a different se...
My assumption is, as with the expression "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white, that words in quotation marks refer to something in language and w...
As I see it, in the self-referential case, where "this sentence" is referring to itself, this means that "this sentence" is referring to "this sentenc...
I agree that I could have been clearer in my reply. My assumption is that if a set of words is in quotation marks, such as - "snow is white" - then th...
Function of quotation marks My assumption has been that because "Mark Twain" is in quotation marks, this means that "Mark Twain" is an expression in l...
I see words on my screen, which happen to be the words - this - sentence - has - five - words. I recognize a meaning in these words as 1) "this senten...
As you say, this is a key point, on which your other points depend. 1) "The Pentastring" exists in language, such that "The Pentastring is a string of...
This conflicts with what you wrote on page 7. "This string has five words" is an expression, whilst the Pentastring is something that exists in the wo...
An expression that refers to itself can never have a meaning An expression can only have a meaning if it refers to something outside itself. We are gi...
I think that the sentences "this sentence has five words" and "this sentence is false" can be treated in a similar way. For both sentences, the questi...
I will set outside some of your other points for the moment, and try to get to the heart of the matter. Otherwise if you make five points, and I respo...
It depends what the word "this" in the expression "this sentence is false" is referring to. If it is referring, for example, to the sentence "this cat...
The use-mention distinction (Note, using brackets to try to make the expression clearer) I agree that the expression ("London" has six letters) is an ...
I wrote "Examples of "mention"" The problem is, I want the word "examples" to refer to the word "mention", I don't want the word "mention" to refer to...
Examples of "mention" Consider "Big Ben" has two words. As the expression "has two words" refers to the expression "Big Ben", not to Big Ben as a thin...
Returning to the OP: "this statement is false" The sentence "this sentence is false" is not a paradox as it is meaningless. In the sentence "this sent...
As @"Lionino" suggests, I will spend some time and go through the thread ""This sentence is false" - impossible premise" to see what I can learn from ...
Agree =============================================================================== I wrote: Possibility 2) If "this string" is referring to itself,...
"A cat" may be defined as "a carnivorous mammal long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice". "A cat" refers to "a carnivorous mammal lo...
In your post you present eight complex linguistic and logical problems, each requiring the time it deserves, meaning that I only have the time to answ...
On my screen I see the set of words "This string has five words". What is a sentence? Is the meaningless set of words "colourless green ideas sleep fu...
There is a lot to work through in your post, and to do justice to the points you have made, I am working through them one by one. ====================...
True, the individual must have an extensive web of beliefs in order to believe that tomorrow the sun will rise in the east. Referring back to the OP, ...
Yes. Every observer of a set of words interprets the same set of words differently, because it is the observer that gives the set of words meaning. It...
An individual sees the sun rise in the east on 100 consecutive days. They become aware of the rule that the sun rises in the east, and then live by th...
Yes, true. Language communicates As not every animal is a cat, not every set of words is part of a "Language". The Merriam Webster Dictionary describe...
Yes. I think Kripke's solution, as described in the Wikipedia article Liar Paradox, seems to be the most reasonable. A statement can only be true or f...
FORMS OF LIFE As rules are private, a rule-based language must also be private Suppose there is culture A with its own form of life, its own language,...
Suppose Person A says "the Tower Bridge is in London and the Taj Mahal is in Spain". When he says "the Tower Bridge is in London", we describe them as...
Person A claims person B always tells the truth. Person B claims person B (himself) sometimes tells the truth. Person C claims person B always lies. K...
I agree with @"flannel jesus" that A sometimes tells the truth, B always lies and C always tells the truth. (admittedly my solution is more convoluted...
The Thwarter app has a source code which specifies how the Thwarter app performs a calculation when input information The Thwarter app is given an inp...
Time is of the essence. The Thwarter app is not aware (figuratively speaking) of the existence of the Oracle app. All the Thwarter app is aware of is ...
/uploads/files/o4/ynu8ctfs74nfe77y.png Let p be "I can write anything". Let q be "I know everything". Consider the statement "If I can write anything ...
Unfortunately, as away for a week, cannot give your post the time it deserves. The question remains, is the Tractarian atomic proposion "Is red (the p...
I agree that R is an atomic proposition, aka elementary proposition. Referring to Wittgenstein's Some Remarks on Logical Form, as he writes that any g...
As I understand it, the atomic proposition is of the form - Is red (the patch) - not - Is red (x). In Wittgenstein's article Some Remarks on Logical F...
The colour exclusion problem for the Tractatus Ramsey's criticisms of the Tractatus is crucial in Wittgenstein's change from his early to late philoso...
Hopefully my question is not too far removed from the OP, the history of the Tractatus. In the Tractatus, language can be analysed into logically inde...
What is there about the writings of Wittgenstein that are so important yet are so difficult to express in words. As if we will be any closer to the va...
The Tractatus is about the nature of language, using language to understand language, which is a logical impossibility. The task becomes that of the m...
Wittgenstein's logical atomism was different to that of Russell's, although they had some similarities (generally referring to SEP - Logical Atomism) ...
Comments