Aren't we--as you point out with global warming--strictly talking about the use of the scientific method and the limits upon that (or, as it were, the...
I would suggest not worrying so much about boxing things into a "philosophy" that we just defend or attack. It seems to get in the way of even startin...
“Psychological underpinnings” sounds like you think it is not a rational (analytical) claim or argument. As to learning about our motives, philosophy ...
I do take those who need to put something a particular way (say, Emerson, the later Heidegger, Wittgenstein (and Austin), Nietszche) to be as analytic...
We are beyond being merely stymied and reflecting on our history and practices to problem-solve; we are lost and don't know how to continue (having co...
Well we should probably leave Witt out of this, but I was only in a way agreeing with your conclusion that there is ultimately nothing "essential", no...
The gist of this sentence is misread. The battle is not against language, language is the means by which the battle is conducted--he uses what we say ...
If we call this a hypothesis, then it gives it the framework of a problem with thus an answer. But if we look at it as an analogy, it would be to illu...
Witt is not examining how we judge a whole language game (say, the practice of cannibalism) so much as an act or expression within such a practice (a ...
Well that's disappointing, but I remain willing to elaborate. Bottom line my point is that rules are an example he uses, not an explanation of how eve...
Well, as with @"Metaphysician Undercover" requiring that following and obeying be subject to the same necessity--not seeing that we may follow, for in...
This takes Witt's realization as the discovery of a paradox which importantly impacts our ability to have any certainty at all (Kripke will call this ...
Here, the analogous world of trees and plantations would be animals and cattle, wildlife and product. As I have said, for Wittgenstein, to swing from ...
In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein examines why we want the certainty of picturing language as words connected to objects (including a "mea...
I did attach the texts to the original post, and they are very short so I wouldn't be deterred. As well, the antipathy of philosophy is a parred down ...
I made a mistake: the reference to "passionate utterances" in the essay on animals is just a mention of an essay called "Performative and Passionate U...
I attached the Philosophical Investigations section XI on aspects and the Companionable Thinking essay by Cavell to my original comment, though the bo...
@"Caldwell" @"James Riley" @"baker" @"Wayfarer" Cavell has an essay in the book Philosophy and Animal Life, in response to a fictionalized speech maki...
Emerson will call it the genius that each of us have, but it is more in relation to an opportunity than something innate. Is it unobjectionable to say...
This actually catches some of what is important that Witt is pointing out, particularly that the grammar of a thing (the way it works, or not) express...
This is a description of a cat; these are facts about a cat for identifying a cat, say, from a dog, or a tiger. These are not the essence of a thing t...
(emphasis added) In the PI, Witt is trying to get us to see why we want there to be such a thing as a "literal, conventional meaning" (a "meaning"). I...
I don't want to run off topic here but the term "use" captures that language can not be meaningful beforehand (as if in a "meaning" or by anticipated ...
In this case, as I said earlier, that "I know I have a headache" is "know" in the sense of being aware. To decide what we can "sensibly say" is to ima...
The emphasis is being able to show a context; in this way we can see the implications of the expression, the way in which it works (it's grammar) and ...
I knew there was a more definitive criteria of the sense of knowledge I was trying to contrast with that of being aware for @"Olivier5", but I couldn'...
Earlier, here, I said: The method Witt uses in imagining a context for an expression is to show that the sentence is meaningful, that there are ordina...
We could say we "perceived via the senses"(empirically) and can explain pain "rationally" as neurons firing and tissue swelling and brain processes (t...
Well I took this up above, but the idea that a sentence like "I know I am in pain" looks like it is meaningful in the abstract is because words can be...
@"Banno" It might save time to find the phrase "Essence is expressed by grammar" on the first page and see if that post makes sense. But I would say t...
@"Banno" This is really one you have to read with the larger context of the whole discussion of rule-following, but I did another discussion of Cavell...
@"Srap Tasmaner" Maybe it would help with some examples. Let's say, making an apology. Now, I can judge that what someone else is saying is not an apo...
I specifically said that knowledge in this case is its sense as awareness (thus sometimes it can not be "reliably acquired" as we are not aware of it,...
That's a good point. I said it to emphasize the fact that each thing, like knowing, believing, pointing, has different criteria and grammar than other...
Is this the "context" in which he said it? Saying it is incorrect doesn't even say how it is incorrect, much less why this is the statement that he fe...
Nothing I can say will tell you anything so that you won't have to see for yourself. Can everyone please stop thinking philosophy is like facts; that ...
That's a bit harsh. He changes the direction of philosophy and he isn't entitled to a term to generally refer to what takes him a whole book to set ou...
I believe we just disagree. I was making a different claim about "use" and showing the limitations of correctness (and rules; as if to say: there are ...
Well yes, it's a technical term the way he uses it. He is getting at what expresses the essence of a particular "concept" (another technical term, but...
To the extent my pain goes away with the same medication, my pain is the same as your pain (as it were, essentially--a grammatical claim on the sense ...
I was not paraphrasing what you wrote. I am pointing out the lack of necessity of a context--all that is needed is a definition of pain and of knowled...
I'm interested in how we affirm that we do know sensations (me mine, you mine). Of course there is not always a opposite direct negation of an epistem...
Except that you could be lying, and we may never know; or, we might see your pain, and reject it/you as dramatization, posturing. Or you have expresse...
"When I have a headache, I know I have a headache." @"TheMadFool" I agree. There is something true in this expression, but it is not what this reactio...
. TMF: "Obvious", "perfect sense". Mine: "pretending", "absurd", "disingenuous" Succinct. TMF's statement does not need a context--that's been the poi...
I agree that the sense of forgetting associated with awareness is maybe not the first sense one would think of (that I should have thought of a better...
Wittgenstein looks at belief in the Philosophical Investigations. He lands on the claim that belief operates like a hypothesis: "I believe it's going ...
Of course. All I was adding is that is only half the battle; Witt goes on to show a legitimate logic of pain in the alternative; in what sense I know ...
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