Yes, Wittgenstein makes no attempt at coming up with an answer to the questions he raises. As he wrote in the Preface "After several unsuccessful atte...
The great analytic philosophy vs continental philosophy divide. My favourite city is Paris, and we always stay near the Left Bank, so perhaps I should...
Yes. They ignored causation. If I see someone wince, I know that something has caused such pain behaviour, whether pain or acting. I may never know wh...
Objects, entities and events exist in space and time in the world. In the mind, the parts of objects, entities and events are connected within concept...
Logical Positivism stated in the 1920's. Their central thesis was the verification principle, whereby only statements verifiable through direct observ...
In Referentialism, the objects in the world are observable material things, including things such as mountains, trees, crying, wincing and other behav...
The key paragraph is PI 43 which says that the meaning of a word is its use in language. But what about the second part "And the meaning of a name is ...
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 ...
As you say "A child learns the word 'table' in the context of her life." The child asks "where is my toy". Its parent says "your toy is on the table"....
For example, the Decision Lab writes of Wittgenstein as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th C: Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most ...
If things in the child's world are not named, how does the child learn the names of things. The child must already know what a table is if the child k...
The Philosophical Investigations rejects Referentialism. In Referentialism, the child would point to an object in the world. If the child is not point...
After a bit of pondering, I will stick my neck on the line and say that, at the core of Philosophical Investigations, with its language games, family ...
As you say, Wittgenstein is responding to Augustine. I agree with Wittgenstein that Augustine's position, as Wittgenstein presents it, is too simplist...
When Wittgenstein talks about "use", I am unclear whether he is referring to the word having a use in a sentence or the sentence having a use in the w...
PI 182. The criteria which we accept for 'fitting', 'being able to', 'understanding', are much more complicated than might appear at first sight. That...
Simplifying, as I understand it, words have meaning in two ways. First, meaning by description, in the sense of Wittgenstein's use theory of meaning a...
I agree 100% that Wittgenstein does not ignore the fact that the language game has a use in the world, such as teachers, pain, slabs, roses, shopkeepe...
If Wittgenstein is against theorising, then why did he write that the meaning of a word can be either i) its use in language or ii) what it points to....
Words have a use in the language game, and the language game has a use in the world. Wittgenstein asks questions, but avoids trying to answer them The...
Pain is not a thing Perhaps I am missing what you are saying, but I don't understand when you say that the correct conclusion is that there is no thin...
Words which have a use in the language game don't name the thing in the box. PI 293 - But suppose the word "beetle" had a use in these people's langua...
Yes, Wittgenstein's proposition that the meaning of words in a language is in their use refers to their use in a world, not just their use in the lang...
I could say "ouch!" or I could wince, both serve the same function in indicating to others that I am in pain. They cannot know that I am in pain, they...
I agree in the main with what you are saying about Wittgenstein, and only on a few points could I quibble. Agree. "Ouch!" is a name for an observable ...
A sentence full of metaphorical meaning. Yet the problem is, how do I actually use such knowledge. I know what you mean, but making practical use of s...
I agree that the exclamation "ouch!" is not a name for the pain inside us, but rather, is the name for an observable pain-behaviour that has been caus...
"Ouch!" and "fire!" are not single words. As exclamations, they are complete sentences. "Ouch" and "fire" are single words. If I walked into a room an...
I am sure that "ouch!" is a noun and/or the name of a behaviour. If somewhere along the line I wrote "ouch", without the exclamation mark, this was a ...
I said that "Ouch!" is a sentence, not that "ouch" is a sentence. The word "ouch!" is an exclamation, and according to the University of Sussex, an ex...
If I go into a corner shop, see people say "I want a cracker" and are given a cracker, then when I want a cracker I know to say "I want a cracker". As...
I agree that "ouch!" is an expression, as I wrote before "In that sense one can rightly say that "ouch!" is an expression of pain." The word "ouch!" r...
If someone can see me, they see a picture of me wincing. If someone cannot see me, and hear me say "ouch!", they can replace the word "ouch!" by a pic...
"House" as a noun names a building for human habitation. "Ouch!" as a noun names a pain behaviour. PI 26: To repeat—naming is something like attaching...
I didn't properly answer your question. It seems that the PI is making the case that god in the atheist's language game means something different to g...
Saying "ouch!" is not an involuntary act such as wincing, but rather a cognitive act as part of a language game requiring conscious thought intended t...
Which comes first, knowing the meaning of a word and then understanding the sentence it is in or learning the meaning of a word from the sentence it i...
As you point out, a key para is 244 So you are saying that the word 'pain' really means crying?"— On the contrary: the verbal expression of pain repla...
An English speaker would say "ouch!", an Indonesian speaker would say "aduh!", meaning that exclaiming "ouch!" is not an innate behaviour but is rathe...
I agree that the word "ouch" has to be in context. It could be the Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache, a BBC website reflecting th...
I agree with the second part, as I wrote before "In that sense one can rightly say that "ouch!" is an expression of pain." However, I'm not sure about...
As Wittgenstein said in PI 304 "Naming appears as a queer connexion of a word with an object." A name can only name something known, something that ca...
My arm is stabbed, I feel pain, and involuntarily my face winces. If I don't know the English language, I cannot say "ouch!". The only way an observer...
"The word "ouch!" and behaviour As Wittgenstein describes, the word "ouch!" replaces a person's particular behaviour. But isn't it the case that the w...
Wittgenstein and the Cartesian problem Wittgenstein asks how words refer to sensations. His interlocutor asks if the word "ouch!" is describing the ot...
Yes, to know the name of a bird allows one to be able to distinguish it from other birds, and to know the name of a chess piece allows one to distingu...
Only another 692 paragraphs in Part I to go through after we have agreed PI 246. Wittgenstein is un-bolded, the interlocuter is bolded. Regarding "It ...
As Feynman said in Names Don't Constitute Knowledge, knowing the name of something is useful if you want to talk about it with someone else, but it do...
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