If combinations don't ontologically exist in a mind-independent world (aka relations) but do exist in the mind, then: i) what exists in the mind-indep...
The apple exists as a set of parts in the mind. When the mind believes that it is observing an apple in the world, for the apple to also exist in this...
A set is a combination of things. I would accept that "combinations" exist in the mind. I would accept that the mind observes "combinations" in the wo...
In the world exists x, y and z. Suppose x,y and z exist in the world. This gives us 6 sets - (x) - ( y) - (z) - (x,y) - (x, z) - (y,z). If sets exist ...
T-Sentences Consider the T-sentence "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white. Note that "snow is white" is being used in the sense that white is one ...
Random searches on the internet agree that "snow is white" is not analytic. For example, from www.oxfordbibliographies.com: "The existence of analytic...
Hopefully, I'm not repeating myself too much. Designation has at least two senses, one as used by Tarski, and one as used by Austin. Both are relevant...
In the dictionary, snow is defined as atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a ...
Snow can appear black at night, can appear white in sunlight, can appear red at sunset and can appear grey at dusk. All these are contradictory yet lo...
The word "is" has many meanings. For example - i) "snow is black on a dark night", where "is" means "appears to be" - ii) "snow is white", where "is" ...
Propositions may be either analytic or synthetic I would move on to Davidson if it weren't for my confusion with Tarski's Semantic Theory of Truth (ST...
To my understanding: Tarski's Semantic Theory of Truth is not a Theory of Truth Tarski in his Semantic Theory of Truth (STT) requires any Theory of Tr...
"Small moves, Banno, small moves" My understanding is correct IFF my understanding is correct. My instinctive belief is as @Michael wrote ""'p' is tru...
I am attempting to understand Tarski's logic of of truth. Tarski's T-Schema states "S" is true IFF S Tarski's Semantic Definition of Truth establishes...
Quick question. I perceive something in the world that is cold, white and frozen, and I name it "snow". Therefore, "snow" means something in the world...
Truth rests on meaning - and meaning rests on definition The Sorites Paradox asks that when on the removal of a single grain a heap becomes a non-heap...
Given the Sorites Paradox, we have a heap of sand. A heap is defined as "a large number of". Large is defined as considerable. Considerable is defined...
I agree that most of the time I accept the names given to things by society, such as ships, tables, governments, etc. However there are occasions when...
Agree. Most of the time I accept the names given to things by society, such as ships, tables, governments, etc. However there are occasions when there...
The truth is what I say it is I perceive the world and observe something white. In a performative utterance, I name this something "black". Henceforth...
Consider the propositions "snow is white" and "the bird is blue". To know whether they are true or false, one must first know what they mean. We canno...
Given G as 6.67 * 10-11 Nm2/kg2, whatever follows is natural and logical, agreeing in this respect with Max Tegmark that the universe is mathematical....
My attempt: I believe that I am observing something that is atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lyi...
Mathematics tells us that the gravitational force between any two objects is F = GmM/r2, where G = 6.67 * 10-11 N m2/kg2. But mathematics does not tel...
Consistency If there was no regularity in what we observed, there would be no logic in what we observed. For example, if one morning the sun rose in t...
The phrases "observer independent" and "observer dependent" should be treated as figures of speech rather than taken literally. "Observer independent"...
Searle's observer independent refers to an animate system (such as a person) which, when experiencing identical inputs, may result in alternate output...
Relations must cause changes in the world if we are to know about them If relations ontologically exist in a mind-independent world, they either cause...
Not lost interest, but busy as off to Vienna tomorrow for a Schnitzel and Apfelstrudel. Did Wittgenstein treat relations as objects In the Preface, Wi...
There are two types of relations, those in the mind and those in the mind-independent world. I agree and believe that relations exist in the mind, but...
I agree, language needs both description and acquaintance. Neither is sufficient by itself. The Rosetta Stone couldn't be deciphered without there bei...
If aRb cannot be shown in a picture of the world because it may lead into an infinite regress, being shown the meaning of "tufaa liko mezani" will equ...
Relations may be the weak point in Wittgenstein's theory of showing aRb leads into an infinite regress Russell in his introduction gives an example of...
You're assuming that there is something called C That's the question. Is there a something C that relates A to B. What is C ? Either C is grounded in ...
An external relation is a relation that is external to the terms or things it relates, and is not grounded in its relata. For example a cherry and a s...
For Wittgenstein, is there a mind-independent world ? I follow that " the notion of a mind-independent world is not found in the Tractatus", yet he do...
Are ontological relations in a mind-independent world individuals Terminology In modern usage, an internal relation is not an ontological addition, su...
My attempt: Can ignore (A) which is a hypothetical and redundant. From (B), which is not hypothetical: Let side one of the Triangle have length a Let ...
The puzzle of the Tortoise and Achilles is what the Tractatus is trying to solve 4.1212 " What can be shown, cannot be said" 4.461 "Propositions show ...
FH Bradley argued against the existence of relations in the world Wittgenstein's Picture Theory of Language requires relations in the world 4.461 The ...
3.143 - "For in a printed proposition, for example, no essential difference is apparent between a propositional sign and a word. (That is what made it...
In great music, as with great painting, the notes, or brush marks, combine into a single aesthetic experience, which is a feeling rather than a though...
Admittedly, I didn't make it clear what the point of my post was. For Wittgenstein, a thought is not a single thing, a simples, but rather involves a ...
Tactatus 4 "The thought is the significant proposition" Language and music I agree with the gist of what you are saying. Perhaps I am quibbling about ...
I agree that you know that I am experiencing the public object emitting 700nm labelled "red" You believe that I am experiencing in my mind the colour ...
@"Banno" Broad has a rejectionist approach, challenging Bradley' scepticism about relations' ability to relate their relata. Broad argues that it is t...
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