Thanks for catching that. It’s #308. “How does the philosophical problem about mental processes and states and about behaviourism arise?——The first st...
To say something is “unknowable” (that I am, or aesthetics are) is not to elude our desire for purity, it is to judge in contrast to it; to find an “a...
I saw a similar start of an approach in the quotes @"schopenhauer1" posted, which I began to flesh out here. My guess is that Schopenhauer gets mixed ...
Just to clarify for @"RussellA", my understanding of that section of the PI is an exploration of philosophy's fantasy that there is some fact about me...
@"Banno" @"schopenhauer1" @"Corvus" I'm not sure what you are getting at here, but, just because a word has many different definitions does not make i...
This mirrors Wittgenstein’s insights about the limits of knowledge, and our desire to have knowledge be everything, that knowledge might equal virtue,...
I’ll admit I have not read Schopenhauer (which is long overdue given my interest in both Witt and Nietzsche), but I am claiming that the Investigation...
What Wittgenstein is looking at is one of classical philosophy’s responses to skepticism: trying to solve skepticism (deny the fact that Wittgenstein’...
@"Bano" @"Sam26" This makes me understand a lot of what you have been saying. You may have been butting heads with people (and with understanding the ...
That is not irony, it’s obtuseness. What you are haphazardly referring to is certainty in its sense as particularity, and, despite your condescension,...
This explains a lot. Skepticism is the fear that there is an ever-present breakdown in activities such as just: seeing a mailbox, which leads to the f...
@"RussellA" @"Banno" @"Sam26" I came across this (attached) very short 13-paragraph synopsis of the ethical import of the Investigations. It includes ...
Well I wouldn’t take what I pointed out before as of little significance; it is the conclusion on Descartes’ Meditations. But of what I have seen of h...
@"schopenhauer1" I am merely putting this same observation in a way that goes further to incorporate the larger issue of the fear of skepticism. That ...
I think you believe Wittgenstein is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Kant took away our possibility of knowing the "thing-in-itself" (what Wi...
But this is creating a vision of "reality" because it is required ahead of time to meet a certain requirement, which I am going to stop calling "certa...
@"RussellA" @"Banno" The style of the Investigations is extremely intentional and necessary for what he is doing--the method he uses is part of the re...
I can relate that it is hard to see why it is written this way. First, it is a realization so only you can come to it on your own; understanding is no...
The TLP are more “aphorisms” but I would also not try to make sense of them outside the context of the rest of the work. What he wanted in the TLP was...
I have been trying to take another run at On Certainty but @"Sam26" is way ahead of my understanding so I’ve been reluctant to weigh in (I don’t want ...
That’s the wrong takeaway. He is “philosophizing” it’s just a different method and not driven by the desire to resolve skepticism with a”system” (rath...
I’m pretty sure you’ll say this won’t mean anything to you either, however, you would interpret that as a refusal to be intelligible. That being said,...
@"Banno" @"RussellA" @"Luke" I get how this would be funny, but it is not accurate or helpful for either Nietzsche or Wittgenstein. I would point out ...
I think aphorism is a misscharacterization. They are not meant as individual (independent) statements of something he is arguing is true. He does make...
This is not “vagueness”. It is a realization that there is no general explanation of “meaning” or “solution” to skepticism. He comes at it from multip...
You really should stop using those words; that use insinuates triviality and that it’s just about language. This isn’t a debate on how certainty shoul...
Plato, Kant, Hume, Descartes, etc. are all reacting to skepticism, doubt in our knowledge. That’s not vague, it’s pervasive. “Language game” is not a ...
The claim is not “interpretative”. It comes from a familiarity with the history of western analytical philosophy. The desire to solve skepticism is an...
Well there are times he addresses us directly but the point is for you to judge if you would agree with what is said in a situation, or agree that his...
He is trying to find out why we want to create explanations, such as correspondence, forms, positivism, and, as I tried to say, your (and others) misr...
@"Banno" @"Sam26" @"Luke" @"Corvus" Wittgenstein is responding to the historical status of philosophy in his time. However, the problem of appearances...
@"Banno" @"Luke" @"Joshs" @"Sam26" @"Paine" After reading some of the recent comments, I wanted to offer what help I can on reading Wittgenstein (foll...
These are all very interesting. I would agree that yes without “responsibility and accountability” the moral realm is not inhabitable (that refusing t...
I agree wholeheartedly that “certainty” and “knowledge” are specific here, apart from the various senses they have in ordinary use. But both are the p...
I believe @"Banno" was referring to the Cavell essay I attached, but it is about reading the PI anyway. I’ve taken a run at On Certainty a few times a...
Fair point. But, as you say, he is looking and all I am saying is let’s not loose track of the reason he is looking, and it’s not to be an English tea...
Well I don’t want to high-jack the thread. I looked at a Cavell essay on Kripke here in a post on rules. But I’ll entertain any thoughts on Cavell’s a...
I would characterize Wittgenstein’s insight of our desire for certainty as a temptation based on the human condition (that we are separate and we want...
I do think Cavell is a good example of the method Wittgenstein uses, and explains it well, so I had hoped those parts would be helpful to Russell. I t...
Sorry, but it appears you are not attempting to understand Wittgenstein but are simply operating from your opinions which you refuse to question, in w...
@"Banno" @"Luke" @"Sam" @"schopenhauer1" @"Richard B" @"frank" The act of “expression” (rather than “observable behavior”) is necessary as it implies ...
Yes. I would only add that we don’t normally (in anticipated contexts) explain actions, and it is not necessary or even possible to always explain—an ...
To address any metaphysical sense, the bird (or anyone) would not have an “intent”, and because it is a bird, it would not intend (in the sense of del...
Again, Ouch! is not a name for a thing (an object—“something inside us”), it is an expression of my being in pain (an externalization). (This is not t...
Well, one point is we do not need intention; that it is only an issue when something is unexpected (not incorrect nor not the norm), and intention is ...
The presumption of “intention” comes from expectations that go along with situations. It is not a constant state of something like deciding or “meanin...
Well, what I am saying is not an “answer”, nor is it one of any, say, foundations, or however “form of life” is thought to play a part. Our relation t...
We have the practices of obligation, asking a favor, duty, betrayal, insincerity, etc. which come into play between triggering a response and making a...
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