Music is a language is metaphorical - feelings and thoughts We talk about the language of music, but this is a metaphor, in that music is like languag...
2.0272 The configuration of the objects forms the atomic fact 4 The thought is the significant proposition 4.023 A proposition is the description of a...
Wittgenstein wrote in his Notebooks 1914-16: "Now it is becoming clear why I thought that thinking and language were the same. For thinking is a kind ...
True, in that Wittgenstein is using the word "thought" - 4.116 "Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly". The problem with Wittge...
I think so. Critique of Pure Reason - A239 - "We can only cognize objects that we can, in principle, intuit. Consequently, we can only cognize objects...
The "beetle" plays an important role in the language game Wittgenstein in Tractatus proposed that thought is language 4 "The thought is the significan...
The world is not linguistic in form. Public language and private experience When looking at the public objects such as post box, a sunset, a strawberr...
I'm not the best to advise. I use the obvious sources, such as the SEP and IEP, but I never tell anyone I also use Wikipedia. SEP -Arthur Schopenhauer...
For a Direct Realist and Idealist, the ontology of the external world would follow from their propositions. For the Indirect Realist, it wouldn't. Wha...
Wittgenstein wrote 6.373 The world is independent of my will. It is said that an abstract object such as a number exists outside of time and space and...
Relations are not of necessity properties I can say "there is a relation between my pen and the Eiffel Tower", but this does not mean the relation bet...
Wittgenstein is the Elon Musk of philosophy, pushing the iterative process in order to go fast. Accepting setbacks and failures, but driven by the asp...
Where exactly are Wittgenstein's facts 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things 1.13 The facts in logical space are the world 1.2 The wor...
Negative Facts I observe the world and notice "the apple is not red" From Tractatus: 2.06 The existence and non-existence of atomic facts is the reali...
Following Wittgenstein's line of thinking, if "my dog has fleas" obtains in the world, then my dog has fleas is a fact. Even if "my dog has fleas" doe...
YouGovAmerica did a poll 2019 that contributes to this topic, including: "YouGov asked Americans about their belief in various paranormal entities. Tu...
You are right that to say that the proposition "there is such a thing as supernatural witchcraft" requires verification, but it follows that the propo...
Yes, as with Kant's a priori pure and empirical intuitions, people have a historically-effected consciousness and they are embedded in the particular ...
Did Berkeley believe that the world is a "figment of the imagination" Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy - 1912 He then proceeds to consider ...
Private knowledge of representations I observe an object in the world and have subjective knowledge of the colour red in my mind. As the object in fac...
There are different kinds of Idealism. For example, as described by the SEP - Idealism, there is Berkeley's "Ontological Idealism", where the mind is ...
As you wrote about Kant's theory of "Transcendental Idealism": "you can be both a transcendental AND an empirical realist", this indicates the phrase ...
The term "Transcendental Idealism" is more metaphorical than literal A better description than "transcendental idealism" could be "justified belief wi...
Some have said that "definitions are not all that helpful", but it has also been said about Ordinary Language Philosophy that traditional philosophica...
Luckily, my livelihood is not dependent on my selling. I believe in Realism Idealism is the view that things exist only as ideas, with no reality of m...
Newton's second law F=ma is a metaphor, not a literal fact. Andrew May makes a strong point that even Newton's second law is a metaphor, in that that ...
There is no indication in the article that Wigner proposes the mystical or religious to explain why our theories work so well. Wigner wrote - "The mir...
The mind is of a different kind to the mind-independent world Realism is the belief that the world comprises the mind and a mind-independent world. Al...
Mathematics obeys matter, rather than matter obeys mathematics From observations of the world, we arrive at the belief that there is a regularity in w...
The main issue is Eugene Wigner's The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences As regards the unreasonable effectiveness of m...
This leads to: Statement 1 = If relations do not exist, then it is not the case that Glasgow is to the west of Edinburgh Statement 2 = Relations exist...
Concepts are invented not discovered One day, a Cro-Magnon on a walk through the forest happened to observe a big flat rock that had fallen from the s...
You wrote: We have to show that relations exist. Glasgow is west of Edinburgh - so we are told. It could mean that if we turn over the whole universe ...
Take the wheel as an example. As with all inventions they were invented in the mind, and then made into a physical thing of perhaps wood and steel, a ...
Referring to Eugene Wigner's - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Mathematical systems are invented and then discar...
Parts may exist in the world, but the whole only exists in the mind The whole is a set of parts, but even a part is a set of parts. For the sake of ar...
Thought experiments and the "unreasonable" nature of mathematics Aristotle taught that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. However, Richard H...
The effectiveness of mathematics is neither reasonable nor unreasonable. I observe the world. I observe that all things being equal, what happened in ...
I feel like Daniel thrown into the lion's den. There are different kinds of games Within a particular game are duties and obligations. An institution ...
Searle says that within social institutions are duties and obligations Within a social institution are duties and obligations. I sit down with someone...
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