Am I right in thinking that your position is that of Indirect Realism, as described by the Wikipedia article Direct and Indirect Realism Indirect real...
On the desk is a book. One could say that the book exists because the atoms that make it up exist in different locations, for example, atom A and atom...
There seems to be a family resemblance between Bracketing and Nominalism. Wikipedia - Bracketing (Phenomenolgy) The preliminary step in the philosophi...
As a Nominalist, rather than a Platonic Realist, that's my present understanding of the universe today, in that there are no such things as objects in...
A book at one moment in time can only exist in one location. For example, in the morning, it exists on the desk. But in order for it to exist on the d...
For Derrida, the meaning of a word derives from how it contrasts with other related words. In this instance "car" contrasts with bicycle, train and pe...
"Something" and "nothing" are words. As only words that are part of a pair (more or less) have any use in language - hot/cold, up/down, sense/nonsense...
If I correctly understand your position: 1) You distinguish between standard perceptions looking outwards into the external world, and special percept...
As you wrote: The mind has two sides, i.e. the inside (self) and outside (perceptions for the external world). The relationship between the mind and b...
Light enters the eye from outside, is processed in the brain, and "I" perceive the colour red. When "I" perceive the colour red, where is what I am pe...
You used Kant's concept of Apperception when you wrote: Idea or concept of self is a type of intuition or Apperception (in Kant's terms), that looks i...
At one moment in time, if I am conscious, I must be conscious of something, there must be an intentionality about my consciousness. For example, at on...
The Wikipedia article is about the Investigations. In the Investigations, Wittgenstein writes that whilst logic lies at the bottom of science, this is...
I can imagine a world where there was an event yet nothing preceded it, ie, a deterministic world of free will. I can imagine a world where elephants ...
As regards the Investigations, I read it more as an attack on "bad" philosophy than scientism. I see the key to the Investigations as PI 43: the meani...
The Investigations is not the work of a sceptic, but that of someone confidently expounding the theory that the meaning of a word is its use in the la...
Wittgenstein is confident in the Investigations, in the way of Aristotle, that the role of the philosopher is to bring clarity to the ordinary use of ...
It is the ordinary user of the language rather than the philosopher who puts demands on the words they use, for example, making extraordinary claims a...
It is more the ordinary user than the philosopher who puts demands on our use of the word "know" when, according to the Evening Standard, they might s...
It is right to point out when someone misuses a word, whether a philosopher or an ordinary man, because that is when problems arise. But there is no o...
According to www.grizzalan.com: Ludwig Wittgenstein was almost certainly autistic. Several notable psychiatrists, such as Christopher Gillberg in A Gu...
True, even though Einstein's theory may be incommensurable with Newton's theory, Einstein would be able to understand Newton's theory. However, Newton...
The position of the Investigations is clearly that of Moderate Relativism, as Wittgenstein discusses different types of language games, such as that o...
As you say, first we come up with a few questions (which the Investigations does do), then we hypothesise a theory or two (which the Investigations do...
There may be a problem if thought and content of thought are separated. I have the thought "I am in pain". If the content of the thought is "I am in p...
@"schopenhauer1" Could you please scan the following for anything you think is not logical: As shown by PI 293, it seems that it is not only private b...
I agree that a word wouldn't be in language in the first place if it didn't have a use, An almost infinite number of words could be created, but only ...
As you point out, the common factor is a mind. The patterns of ink on paper in the form - b r i n g m e t h e s l a b - can exist independently of any...
If everyone who had used the language disappeared from existence, and all that was left were patterns of ink on paper, would these patterns of ink on ...
From Tarski and Davidson "the snow is white" is true IFF the snow is white. Using the inverted commas in a similar way, "there is a slab in the world"...
Consider the sentence "bring me a slab". Where does it exist? If there were no individuals, then it couldn't exist. We know it could exist if there we...
Wittgenstein writes that the meaning of a word is its use in language: PI 43 the meaning of a word is its use in the language. Language has a use in t...
The fact that I have my own language does not mean that I can of necessity understand another's language. For example, Egyptian scripts couldn't be tr...
Critiquing Wittgenstein's Investigations: The public language is founded on private languages From the position of Nominalism, if all the individuals ...
Yes, the phrase "the meaning of a word is its use in the language" is more a theory encompassed in a metaphor, as is "“theory of evolution by natural ...
As the IEP article Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951) writes: Both Realism and Anti-Realism, though, are theories, or schools of theories, and Wittgenste...
Is this the position of Antirealism? IE, if someone says "bring me the slab", are you saying: 1) the state of affairs that there is a slab in the worl...
Perhaps I am one of the few on the Forum that is not a ChatGPT. That would explain why words have conscious meanings to me. How can I ever know for su...
We both accept that there is a "world" in the Investigations, but you're refusing to give your opinion as to where this "world" of Wittgenstein exists...
Even the builder has different language games. True. You haven't visited the UK. Certainly not from one example of running, but numerous example of ru...
You contrasted the metaphysical with the interlocutor and the ordinary use with Wittgenstein. Cavell is pointing out that Wittgenstein accepts both th...
Yes, as Wittgenstein wrote:PI 304 "But you will surely admit that there is a difference between pain-behaviour accompanied by pain and pain-behaviour ...
You haven't been on some the the building sites that I have been on, where a slab of cake has been the highlight of the day. Unless it weighs 10 tonne...
If the barmaid doesn't know the meaning of X in the sentence "X me a lager", then the sentence cannot be meaningfully be used in the context of a pub,...
PI 43 For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word "meaning" it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in ...
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