Antony Nickles

It is hard to see Nietzsche as an analytical philosopher (as with Emerson), say, responding to Kant, because he seems to be only commenting on everyda...

Well, we are past trying to understand the method of OLP and even Witt's example and on to just a statement of a theory of language justified by the f...

J.L. Austin (among others with the same method) looks at what is ordinarily implied in our expressions. In this case a book has fallen off a mantel, a...

We might be getting tripped up on Witt's term "concept", but, as I laid out above, the concept of, say, "knowing" has a number of different options in...

Sounds like you're ready to take a few years off, design your sister's house, punch some grade school children in the face, and then come back and wri...

As I've said, you can say anything you like but only certain things in certain circumstances will count as, say, an apology--insincerity, lack of ackn...

The word itself is dead before it is brought alive into time and context--pedestrian, mundane, banal, or contrary, unexpected, mad. Our very expressio...

I'm not well versed in Descartes, but Cavell read a phrase of Emerson's that I always thought interesting. Emerson quotes his reader saying what they ...

Well, basically @"Mww" is responding to my first draft. I edited my response quite a bit after initially putting it up; it looks like if you click on ...

This is not Witt speaking, but his questioner; his Interlocutor (or, as it where, Witt's former (positivist) self asking the question). And the next p...

Well, Thoreau speaks of the father tongue (active/writing) and the mother tongue (speech/passive). For there to be form to the world, in order to have...

You are grouping the entire world into math and not-math (let's throw in science and not-science; fact/value; true/false). If you imagine that languag...

Well I believe this was part of the New Criticism from the '50s which focused on the forms of literature instead of the history of the author, etc. Wh...

I discussed this above in looking up the definition of a kayak. That we learn our lives and our language at the same time, so learning about our ordin...

For OLP usually the example is something expressed with a context. When we have something like this, or something like "I only see the appearance of a...

Witt will ask, what are we denying? #305-306. Haven't we accounted for language-less belief? "What we deny is that the picture of the inner process gi...

I think you're right this isn't an instance of believing as hypothesizing. From the paragraph before I think we can infer that Witt is using this as a...

I'm not sure what metacognitive means but I don't know how figuring out our ordinary criteria can be considered "meta" if anyone can be the judge. Jus...

I've had what seemed like the same objections leveled at OLP a number of times so I may have lost some. There are a few responses after this so maybe ...

It's been a while since I looked at the actual texts, but, like Emerson (on whom Nietzsche mirrored his work), Austin attempts to take the gas out of ...

This is a traditional analytic philosophy fantasy that captures the fear of not being able to know what is going on with the Other (another person--th...

Part of what Witt is trying to do is elevate the publicness of our communication. Not to deny that we imagine things or have individual experiences or...

And wouldn't it be appropriate to say we are asking about intent because something unexpected happened? And mens rea (intent) can be inferred by actio...

Well, Wittgenstein comes at it a number of different ways so maybe it is hard to see with just my one example/route, but "it makes absolutely no sense...

This would seem to be a kind of census; like linguistic anthropology. We are not "acquiring" knowledge; we already have it from growing up and learnin...

It is not "other people's use" it is a claim on behalf of everyone. The "we" is all English speakers. I make that claim in the first-person plural (as...

Whoops. Its been all sides so I might have jumped to that reflexively.

I have found that you have to take notes. And, when I say that, I've found what is most important is what you are thinking about when you read them. Q...

Yes, this is the part people skip over. It is not making an argument in everyday language (or for it), it is making claims about the criteria (or Gram...

As I discussed above, Witt will call these the "senses" (as in options) for a concept (like "I know" discussed above), and thus why it is important to...

I did say OLP was analytical philosophy that worked within the tradition. I've also said that it looks at what we might say at a time and place (in co...

Sorry, I should have went back and checked. It was Creative Soul; I fixed it.

Thank you sir. Always a pleasure.

Well you've got yourself into an interesting knot. I would suggest the third chapter (skip the first two if you are familiar with skepticism) of Stanl...

It’s not so much communicating experience. It’s more like training someone (indirectly most times) in a practice (in one or a few contexts and then pe...

Well, I guess I am the winner then with a '96 iMac. Well, OLP moved on from Moore's standard of the contradiction of what everyone knows to be true (g...

What I was trying to say is it is not responsibility "in" the expressing, it's "to" the expression, so it's not learning "completely" or expressing co...

Searle and Derrida talking past each other made it seem like the life was drained out of OLP. And so many of its early practitioners came to the concl...

I think seeing how our language and philosophy can get moving is a major accomplishment of OLP. And I enjoyed Heidegger's What is Called Thinking? (th...

There is much made of some OLP philosophers, Moore, Austin, etc., taking OLP as solving skepticism. And some who take Witt as either solving it or mak...

I have the feeling if this is not just a trap, it is a guessing game or riddle; which, of course, I can't help but play/try to solve. If calling up an...

I put your name in there as I thought you might have a better idea of Derrida's take on this idea of the life and death of language, or of the priorit...

Well, you are officially in charge of this thread. I'm finding "explaining" it is either beyond me or does little to shift people's framework to consi...

Well that's refreshing. The name leads to a lot of confusion. If I didn't already suggest it, this essay by Cavell is a good explanation and example (...

I understand you want to let me know that you disagree, but you simply rejected this with no justification than I'm not living in reality. It is arrog...

I agree; and this is an important fact for OLP; that we learn our language (concepts) and the world at the same time. That our language is molded by t...

If it matters, not at all what OLP is about. But I agree Kant and especially Hegel could have dialed the terminology back some.

I think maybe you are taking this as a statement, when I am trying to explain the method of OLP, which necessarily involves fleshing out the context i...

Understanding as: Hear, hear. An ethics of understanding, being understanding to reach the point I try to make of Witt's in my further response to @"M...

Well, footnote 1 talks about philosophical problems common between OLP philosophers and that similar questions enter into their attempts to deal with ...