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Antony Nickles

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Window-brain on a Mac at home: thus my shame.
November 24, 2023 at 02:50
OLP proposes to try to reach an unbiased take on each example (not, somehow, generally, entirely), subject to acceptance by you, so also subject to co...
November 23, 2023 at 22:43
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" I find Austin a refreshing example of how to productively do philosophy, no matter what the conclusions he comes t...
November 23, 2023 at 21:15
I wouldn’t draw that conclusion about terms from OLP necessarily. Austin’s “terms” of criticism look like ordinary comments, but “circumstance”, “mist...
November 23, 2023 at 05:07
@"Ludwig V" Just to follow through here from my response above, OLP is not arguing that reality is established by “language”. “Language” is not its te...
November 23, 2023 at 03:16
You’re not wrong about Moore. He was simply trying to satisfy the desire of metaphysics for certainty with basically, as you say, common sense (Austin...
November 23, 2023 at 02:50
Ctrl-C on a Mac does not do what a Windows’ zombie wants.
November 23, 2023 at 01:14
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" In the end, I don’t think people take Austin seriously enough, to be as impactful as he should be, so thanks for t...
November 22, 2023 at 08:26
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" So are we prepared to accept that: Now it seems to ...
November 22, 2023 at 06:28
Well, “based on” is a distracting word here—of course the only one capable of expressing myself may be me (though others can read me). But, obviously ...
November 22, 2023 at 00:24
The term “ordinary language philosophy” is confusing and made up. First, “ordinary” is only in contrast to “metaphysical”, here, sense-data. And it is...
November 22, 2023 at 00:02
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Just to tweak this a bit, Austin is not “shifting” ...
November 21, 2023 at 21:49
!@@#$@$$!!!
November 21, 2023 at 18:12
@"Ludwig V" Ordinary Language Philosophy has nothing to do with common sense or with the ordinary man, as I tried to explain here (and elsewhere as re...
November 21, 2023 at 16:41
I lied
November 21, 2023 at 16:38
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Lecture X: I was amused to see Austin describe phil...
November 21, 2023 at 06:09
@"Banno" @"Ludwig V" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Lecture X: skipping seven pages in, past the Ayer/C...
November 21, 2023 at 04:52
A tree falling
November 21, 2023 at 04:44
I tried to tag everyone doing the reading when I wrote up my notes on a section; you have been spared all that. Not them.
November 19, 2023 at 15:50
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Just to loop back to Lec. VIII where Austin...
November 19, 2023 at 08:14
Last time, swear
November 19, 2023 at 07:45
Well, you are right that he does try to make it a “linguistic issue” “because is not so good an instrument as the sense-datum language for our special...
November 18, 2023 at 20:51
We could just refer to color and shape as a thing’s color and shape (thus the reticence to “abstract” from them to anything else as unnecessary); our ...
November 18, 2023 at 19:15
Well, we could play a little at ordinary language philosophy and see if there are any actual distinctions but don’t we see here at least a related pro...
November 18, 2023 at 07:42
Of course there are legitimate cases where applications of generalization are more useful than specificity. This comes from the sense applied to multi...
November 17, 2023 at 18:00
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Lecture IX: The smack-down that Austin give...
November 17, 2023 at 07:41
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" @"Janus" @"creativesoul" Continuing from p.80 in Lecture VIII, Ayer ...
November 16, 2023 at 07:54
Shouldn’t type while biking
November 16, 2023 at 01:56
@"Banno" perhaps it could be said that the picture of a real world we would describe, merely mitigated by sense-data, limits itself only to a descript...
November 16, 2023 at 01:47
Fail #327
November 16, 2023 at 01:20
Disregard entirely.
November 16, 2023 at 00:07
You've been watching too much Amy Schumer.
November 15, 2023 at 22:41
Once you've read it, here's a link to my take so far. I haven't written up my notes past page 80.
November 15, 2023 at 22:38
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" I think this essay addresses the issue in its own way, though perhap...
November 15, 2023 at 21:58
Just assume that terrible things are going to happen at any time, and then when they do happen you won't be surprised. Does that help?
November 15, 2023 at 21:15
I don't know what the standard would be to "rule... out" the distinction, but I don't think he wants to say our questions about the world cannot be ad...
November 15, 2023 at 21:07
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" Lecture VIII: I first realized here that Austin is very bent out of ...
November 15, 2023 at 17:44
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"Richard B" A p.s. to the reference to ways of distinguishing between dreaming a...
November 15, 2023 at 17:43
fail, again
November 15, 2023 at 17:28
I am running Safari on an iPad 6 and nothing seems to have gone wrong, but, and here’s a question, how would one know they are hacked when the point i...
November 15, 2023 at 15:59
Did you see this reply? I take him in the current work only to be pointing out that words can have different import given a context of expectations an...
November 15, 2023 at 08:36
mulligan
November 15, 2023 at 07:27
We're getting off the rails. I thought you were dismissing my claim that Austin "is providing evidence of how the world works." Thus my bolded quote w...
November 15, 2023 at 00:40
I do, but--and this is Cavell reading Wittgenstein, so I'll keep it short--there is knowledge, and then there is our relation to that knowledge, to ou...
November 15, 2023 at 00:24
I was responding to what seemed like your dismissal that Austin: "is providing evidence of how the world works, — Antony Nickles I really didn't see h...
November 14, 2023 at 23:52
@"Banno" @"Ludvig" @"Corvus" @"javi2541997" @"Ciceronianus" @"frank" @"wonderer1"@"Janus" @"Richard B" I did try to explain here and here why Austin a...
November 14, 2023 at 23:27
You'd have to give me some reason how this is not claiming evidence of how things are or are not done, or when they can be.
November 14, 2023 at 22:29
I'm not sure you've read Sec. VII, where Austin claims that we only ask "Real or not?" in the case of something in particular (p. 68-69). So the quest...
November 14, 2023 at 22:12
Maybe you are not taking seriously Austin's "cannot" and "wrong" and "facts" and the distinctions he points out. He comes off as arrogant, but he is p...
November 14, 2023 at 21:59
You're thinking of "the world" as not including origin stories, mythology, religious belief, etc. That there is, for example, nothing meaningful to an...
November 14, 2023 at 21:43