No, that’s close. I think there is something you’re trying to wriggle free to keep, but I’m not sure I’ll land on it. Yes, doubt interpreted as radica...
That wasn’t clear, sorry. I meant imagine as in fabricate; we fantasize that there is something to “know” about the other. That is the picture we crea...
@"Janus" @"Corvus" @"frank" @"Manuel" Well I was starting to think I was (ironically) alone in the universe. And this I take as what Emerson is referr...
I said that we imagine that. It might help to reread that paragraph in that light. It is not set up that we can’t “know” your “mind” “internally”, nor...
Yes, but even if we are not “refuting” skepticism (nor resolving it), to simple accept a lower judgment of still to impose a standard rather than see ...
The "problem of other minds" is related to the differentiation of the self, as we also imagine there is something to "know" about the other (in the sa...
I always respect that we all may have differing interests, but my claim is that the "political", as you call it, is the ontological--so not "different...
I think it is different interests that are taken as competing, as I don't mean to eclipse your interest in, say, our brain's affect on our lives, only...
This is true, but I am claiming that there is a crucial, essential part of the self that is different than a claim to knowledge, though also related t...
"Consciousness" is a made up placeholder to give feeling, seeing, thinking, awareness, understanding, the quality of being unique to me ("private"), t...
You are thinking of "assert" as if he is arguing; this is the different sense that he is claiming authority apart from the social contract (our usual ...
I am not asserting my "existence"; I am claiming what I will stand for in relation to how our community judges a part of our lives where we are at a l...
@"frank" @"Manuel" It might help to read my response to Janus and Corvus above as I may have articulated better the essential difference between philo...
First, that sounds exhausting. Now, you may express who you are by wearing clothes differently (or very well), but asking for the potatoes to be passe...
It might be easier to read through my responses to other posts (say here) first for the sense of "assertion" here. I'll just say that this is not prop...
The relegation of our humanity to irrationality is driven by philosophy's desire to only consider what meets the prerequisites it sets of universality...
This is interesting to consider; my Sartre is rusty but my recollection is that he (as with Foucault) is talking about a practical response to the sta...
It isn't that there is no such thing as intention, just that it works differently than philosophy has sometimes pictured it (socially, rather than “me...
You are asking for proof of what are the conditions we act under as humans (as if philosophy's issues could be answered with science). These authors a...
cc: @"Manuel" Well, Austin will have a lot to say about this in his 31-page "A Plea for Excuses, which I highly recommend, but it might be hard to see...
Well it's not a matter of the proposition being "true" in a true/false sense, or that there is a function of a proposition like this to others that wo...
I agree, and would add that this understanding of the self as "asserted" (as it were along or against the backdrop of our practices and culture) is wh...
Though this may not be the quote you are referring to above, I take it you would agree that "what I am" is done differently than that "I" am constant ...
But this is “exist” simply in the literal sense of, just: here; as it were: not not here; or just: alive, rather than dead. But then why is Descartes ...
I agree; only are we just "telling a story"? (to ourselves, or from ourselves? I'm not sure why "internal") I would suggest our fitting in or pushing ...
Here is a good explanation of the historical and philosophical place Wittgenstein holds. I hope it helps with reading the Investigations. “By the midd...
I also think Wittgenstein’s experience may have informed his focus, based on stuff like #426. Our “muddied” ordinary practices cause some to want to “...
I'll go with that. Is our imagining others as dead inside the same means as discrimination? And are the consequences for me, that I feel "uncanny"? I ...
I don't find those sections to be essential as they are only two examples among many others that attempt to find out why the response to skepticism ha...
@"Banno" @"Sam26" And we're off and running. Well there is a lot going on in this quote, and I don't know what you are referring to by my "reduction o...
@"Sam26" @"Paine" As long as we avoid private language and rule following I'm okay. #319 thinking; #344 imagination; #416 consciousness; #437 expectat...
I was saying it was not a "point" because it is already assumed (no need to make a point of it, we all agree). He is not "demonstrating" it; he is loo...
Well, yes, communication can always end up frustrated. But this is not "a point" Wittgenstein is making; it's just the nature of communication, as wel...
@"Richard B" @"RussellA" @"Banno" @"Fooloso4" @"Corvus" @"Luke" Forgot to tag you all on my Discussion of Witt’s term “Use” above, if anyone still thi...
Well I tire of your denigrating something just because you don’t understand it; frankly, it reflects more on you than Wittgenstein. Why are you here w...
He calls what he is destroying a “house of cards” (#118), leaving behind what is important, which is that the ordinary criteria embodied in what we sa...
I think this is a similar misunderstanding that @"RussellA" had (above) between "private" (as Witt uses it) and "personal". I take it you want to reco...
You are overlooking this: "After several unsuccessful attempts to weld my results together into such a whole, I realized that I should never succeed. ...
Pain is just one example among many--as is the picture of reference, correspondence; (but they are not the only manifestation, as neither is positivis...
@"RussellA" @"Banno" @"Luke" I’ve addressed this confusion over “use” here when I focused on the sense (another word Wittgenstein swaps for “use”) in ...
I read some Davidson in school; I’ll have to check it out. And I also enjoyed J.L. Austin’s humor, though it was a little cruel, a little, how would w...
Pain is used by philosophy as the “best case” of our knowledge of the other (because it’s hard for me to ignore, it’s constant, etc.). By “knowledge” ...
Well I should read some Schopenhauer then as I’m getting the feeling that I’d agree with his sensibility. I enjoy others who focus on our inner lives....
Well, take out “experience” (its just what you see, as in, are focusing your sight and attention on) and “within my mind” (this is the picture you’re ...
@"Banno" @"schopenhauer1" @"RussellA" We actually agree here; it’s just I didn't make it clear between the senses of “know”. Of course I can “know” yo...
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