Or any of the "infinite number of other hypotheses," it seems. I'd like to understand this better. Am I right in thinking you're really talking about ...
Surely not. Even if we assume that by asking @"Harry Hindu" what you mean by "Trump," you intended to trip him up, that's not at all the same as the w...
Are you just talking about disambiguation? If we're talking about bridge, it'll mean one thing; if about politics another, and so on? Wouldn't you sti...
You're right of course. OTOH, speaking broadly (and uncomfortably) in a history-of-ideas way, there was a narrative in the period, say, between the se...
It's hard. My first post in this thread was dismissive, and I feel bad about that. I think in some ways it's mainly a difference in attitude toward lo...
Nice to meet another fan! This thread's a little weird because we're mostly talking about sf or fantasy, and Gattaca's the movie I always reach for as...
You are clearly right that they needn't be related. (Goodman's a pretty extreme constructivist and not at all obfuscated.) On the other hand, it seems...
Gattaca (The Truman Show was also written by the writer-director of Gattaca.) I guess Waking Life I actually liked Youth Without Youth, but I'm not su...
Oh my yes! The question of how "best" or "properly" to do philosophy is part of philosophy, and always one of the most widely discussed issues. There ...
As best I understand your last post, you're claiming there's something it's always pointless or meaningless or incoherent to talk about, that our lang...
I happen to find it interesting that language can reach beyond the actual, beyond the non-actual, and even encompass the impossible. No doubt this out...
Yeah, except he started by asking about "potential entities that could and could not happen, exist in our world or not exist, and are abstract, fictit...
First off, the question has a slightly peculiar ring to our ears. wax1232 didn't ask "What is there?" although that's how many readers took his questi...
Your English is just fine, btw. (Your command of my language is certainly better than my command of whatever your native language is.) I'm curious to ...
Not only not trying to build a theory, but believed building a theory was wrong-headed and doomed to failure. (We're talking about "later" here.) Ther...
The funny thing is, I can't offhand remember LW making any comments that suggest he thought of philosophizing itself as a language-game. Anybody think...
I don't think it should be quite this easy. Your second paragraph is obviously true, but I don't think it buys us what you say in the first paragraph....
One simplistic approach is to take the concept of language-games as the natural successor to Frege's context principle. If that sounds like the sort o...
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