I’ll leave him out of it; only complicate things. One book at a time. But, come on… “It is a matter of unpicking… fallacies… which leaves us, in a sen...
If we read on, perception is used as a straw man for any problems in the “aftermath of perception”, but “seeing” a table is to identify something as a...
I’m saying that “correct” is made up as a part of the “perception” of “actual” because the real issue is the identification of the table, judging whet...
@“J” @“Jamal” I was thinking @“Banno” that I’ll just follow along in the book and ask when there’s something I never got about this, and then we can a...
OOHH.... that is entirely my bad. I was rushing and crammed your sentence in with Russell's, probably among other errors. Apologies. And if I ran roug...
One of my favorite books @"Banno", thanks for doing this (good luck). "What we should figure out, is knowledge... well, we tried. Then virtue!... nope...
I do not know in advance how deep my agreement with myself is, how far responsibility for the language may run. — Minar's paper This is a lot in one s...
Minar is accurate and tells the story with all the parts, but it’s lacking in paraphrasing, unpacking Cavell’s terms of art. I am impressed and thankf...
Sorry, the sentence before (which I have also referred to) and the passage from p 223 of the PI, 3rd, in its entirety (emphasis in the original) is: “...
Yes, we do not know the other because we infer them from our experience. But we do not know the other because of our shared history of actions and rea...
@"Banno" @"Richard B" Well I hope I get more credit than that, but I understand the confusion. I put “other minds” in the OP (I have changed it now) o...
We agree on that. I’m only trying to say that there was a purpose: the “investigation” is to find out why they get themselves into it (why he did), wh...
I agree that most of the time doubt is not an issue. I also agree that philosophy has a certain (radical) version of skepticism. As Descartes says, “S...
I didn’t realize you were that guy. I stand by my earlier offense and decision. Please don’t address me until you can treat other people with respect ...
@"Banno" @"Richard B" @"Fooloso4" Understanding "strange" people Here it might appear Wittgenstein is saying that, once we understand their traditions...
Yes, the sun. One type of thing. To the point here, we not only do not have a relationship with others based on knowledge, but our relation to the wor...
I would say his thinking deepened. When he says “hypothesis” he is referring to a sense of “believe”. And it is satisfied in the case of the sun (as w...
y I would take issue with Malcolm’s characterization of skepticism by way of Kripke, but there is already a discussion of rules and Kripke (a reading ...
Yes, the idea is exactly that the self is not a matter of knowledge. Our relationship to others is that we accept or deny who they are, how they feel,...
It’s a good idea to understand a philosopher on their own terms, and by that I mean: get at what part of their words is created (technical), specific ...
Well there’s only a few ways to make this question intelligible, one being: whether there is a good reason (for philosophy) to imagine how we might no...
Right, but, as I said, we are not talking about ordinary certainty opposed to regular doubt. It’s a kind of story. We actually are scared of the ever-...
@"Banno" this is not a claim (not how I see it) but just drawing the picture that is created from acquiescing to the skeptic’s conclusion, say, throug...
I’m going to say, not to reject” it, but to investigate it, through the criteria for it, as he found that those show what matters to us—is “expressed ...
There was actually a lot of skepticism about skepticism in that group. I understand where you are coming from (even if I don’t get it quite right here...
I did attend the meeting; some heavy hitters (Cora Diamond included, along with Marie McGinn, who took Minar to task about his characterization of a q...
The first part of this paper does a good job of laying out Cavell’s claim about the truth in skepticism: that knowledge is not our only connection, an...
As long as you acknowledge that, again, the “solution set” is YOUR requirement, not revealing anything but the answer you dictate. What you have impos...
I gave you a perfectly acceptable alternative interpretation of what is happening (which you did not address). You are just applying an interpretation...
As you say, it does depend on whom we are asking. But the failure of this paradox shows even more. Even if we just ask Carol (and not ask someone else...
Here I take you to be assuming that having vision, self-awareness, memory, focus, self-direction, etc.; in other words, in just being a human, that we...
Well this is an entirely different topic (that I have addressed elsewhere—or could explain by msg) but I’m not saying he sees through language like a ...
Yes, a tricky question. I would agree that discovering one's self is a primary concern, but I am claiming that we may not have discovered it yet, part...
I would point out that, although we may try to place what we say in a context of assumptions and contingencies, we cannot think of everything that mig...
But philosophy does not always “talk about language”. To ask what the good is, is not to talk about the word “good”. In the Investigations, Wittgenste...
I think there is something unrevealed here (perhaps a specific gripe), for which--a now contextless--"transparency" is seen as the answer (which would...
Actually I second this motion. @"Jamal" @"Baden" @"fdrake" Not to be necessarily punitive in this instance, but it is hard to be helpful if someone is...
I recently took up the structure of a moral truth. It is a bit technical but it doesn’t have to be, though that may take some reading through everythi...
Although I may comment here after reading through, I did start a discussion about ‘When the self “exists” or not’, here: https://thephilosophyforum.co...
I was given the analogy, for “technology”, of a word’s fixed, timeless, violence cutting off any other interests we may have in the world (here, apart...
No, philosophy is about truth. Kant says philosophy speaks in a universal voice, as if for each of us, for us to see ourselves in it. Not everyone wil...
There’s more to it, but yes. Thank you. My OP point being that I am a self only if, but also when, we are “acting and engaging” in relation with or ag...
But we aren’t investigating language, and I don’t know how an activities’ possibilities are “contingent” or “propositional” (somehow not how the world...
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