I agree, because as you say:"That one is in pain lies outside the scope of knowledge; it is non-epistemic" As outside the scope of knowledge, such an ...
One knows that are exhibiting pain behaviour, not that one knows they are in pain. PI 304 "But you will surely admit that there is a difference betwee...
5) PI 246 It can't be said of me at all (except perhaps as a joke) that I know I am in pain. What is it supposed to mean—except perhaps that I am in p...
Yes, Wittgenstein does say that we can know something with more or less certainty. PI 246 - Yes, but all the same not with the certainty with which I ...
I am sure that Wittgenstein didn't intend Philosophical Investigations, of which a significant feature is about not being able to know another person'...
You said "We can know that a baby is in pain even though she has no words to express her pain." How can you know the private sensations of another per...
2) PI 246 Well, only I can know whether I am really in pain; another person can only surmise it 5) PI 246 It can't be said of me at all (except perhap...
Wittgenstein discusses pain-behaviour in PI 244, 282, 302, 304 and 393. How can the word "pain" refer to a sensation pain. We know a rock is not in pa...
As the pain you are referring to cannot be the beetle in the box, as the something in the box drops out of consideration in the language game, the pai...
It seems to me that there can be no definitive reading of Wittgenstein because of inherent ambiguities with his text I am partly repeating myself, but...
In a private language it wouldn't make sense, as either "I am in pain" or "I am not in pain". Adding the word "know" would be redundant. However Wittg...
Wittgenstein attacks the idea of a private language Wittgenstein in PI 246 includes the idea that to say "I know I am in pain" may only be said as a j...
I'm not saying I'm necessarily right, but it does force one to be very careful when reading Wittgenstein. My reading of PI 246, where Wittgenstein is ...
A lot to think about. A "cube" is an example of a concept. Wittgenstein is saying that we know and understand the word "cube" not from the sensation o...
PI 246 is contradictory in that it doesn't distinguish between sensation and concept In what sense are my sensations private?—Well, only I can know wh...
PI 246 can be considered as having five separate parts. Part one In what sense are my sensations private? He asks the question Part two Well, only I c...
In PI 246, Wittgenstein writes that he knows his private sensations with certainty, whereas other people only know his private sensations with less ce...
It is true that in a sense to say one has the sensation of green means nothing, as the sensation of green is a private subjective experience and canno...
Plagiarising is serious. For example, www.scribbr.com writes: The consequences of plagiarism vary depending on the type of plagiarism and the context ...
The Indirect Realist would argue that what we perceive through our senses is only a representation of what exists in the world, in that even though we...
This sentence may be used to illustrate Wittgenstein's importance to language and philosophy. The link between linguistic grammatical form and philoso...
Colour can only exist in a world outside the mind as a Platonic Form A group of humans look at several objects and come to a communal agreement that t...
As Wittgenstein wrote in PI 244, pain is different to pain-behaviour How should "colour" be defined The Merriam Webster dictionary defines colour as a...
We have devices that can detect the wavelength of 550nm emitted by a variety of objects. The device doesn't know the name of the wavelength of 550nm p...
If the argument is that because we see green things then in the world exist green things, then it would also follow that if we see a stick bent in wat...
Yes, some objects in the world have the propensity to preferentially reflect light of wavelength 550nm. Humans have defined the wavelength of 550nm as...
Exactly, the fact that the event is in the past means that the the observer cannot see the event directly, only indirectly, which is the position of I...
Yes, that is the problem. If a wavelength of 550nm enters the eye originating from an object in the world, in common language we say "I see a green ob...
The general opinion is that humans can see light, for example: Wikipedia: "Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived b...
The observer sees green light (ignoring for the sake of argument that this wavelength after entering the eye becomes an electrical signal that travels...
In perceiving runner beans, the Direct Realist would say that what we see exists in the world, where things in the world are perceived immediately or ...
The sensation of green is a different thing to the sensation of big, so the expressions "the sensation of green is green" and "the sensation of big is...
It is normal to say "I have the sensation of green", as it is normal to say "I have a book" But "I have a book" means that "I" and the "book" are inde...
A large object is large. A circular object is circular. A green sensation is green. As being circular is not independent of a circular object, being g...
In my dreams, which take place in the dark, I can have the sensation of colour. Whether in a dream or waking, if there is nothing to sense then there ...
Wittgenstein is not saying that there is a "nothing". He is saying that there is a "something", but within the language game, this "something" drops o...
Where does colour exist I agree. It comes down to a matter of opinion. The Direct Realist would say that as we directly see the world around us, thing...
In the world are two objects. One has been named "red" and the other has been named "blue". No-one knows the true colours of these two objects. Howeve...
If Mary can talk about not only the concept of colour but also what it feels like to perceive colour, then, in your own words, how would you describe ...
I agree that Mary can talk about the concept of colour, ie "colour is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though colour is no...
True. On the one hand, how can I have the private sense of things by description, such as democracy, the 1969 Moon landing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mac...
I agree. But I think it is important to distinguish words in inverted colours such as "red" from those not in inverted commas, such as red. Otherwise ...
However, one also reads in the Edinburgh Research Archive that Nietzsche was probably an anti-realist, whereby any external reality is hypothetical an...
Let's use the example in Wittgenstein's PI 1 of the colour red. In the world is an object emitting a wavelength of 700 nm that society has named "red"...
As I understand the "Beetle in the Box" - in the world, suppose there is something that has been named by society a "beetle". When looking at this "be...
The language of science also has metaphorical value An interesting topic that leads into the nature of language. It can be argued that language, inclu...
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