The textual context: the role the sentence plays on this page. Based on Witt's discussion (and my other evidence), the sentence is used as a fact, not...
The quote in that thread is taken (mis-taken) as an open-ended call for speculation too. Instead of inner processes, he's fixed 'Grammar' in the place...
The cartoon is all most people take from Witt, which is sad (and wrong) as I think he's one of our most important modern thinkers. Also, again (previo...
This has two things going on. Acting and intending, and the knowledge of those. To intend (to do) something, and, to mean (something) have two differe...
Obviously this needs to be an entirely different thread. Science doesn't come into it. 'Meaning' is like the imagined 'hidden' inner process. A concep...
I got my "it"s confused; not using the impossibility as a fact, using the statement as a fact. Yes, it is a statement, among other things. It is not b...
Well, you got me there, though I believe the point still stands. He is going back and forth between the two, and the difference between wanting certai...
This is also outside of this text, but Witt points out the variety of our forms of life to get us to see the variety of how the world makes sense (has...
Well this isn't the stretch where that is looked into in detail, that's on me. But the interlocutor's desire to have, his worry about, something "hidd...
What I should have said is Witt is using the statement in its sense of impossibility; as I did say, using the sentence as a given fact (it could be ot...
Ouch. ; ) It is tough because OLP is more of a method and viewpoint than a theory; it doesn't have any force or particular logic to itself other than:...
Not to belabor this, but I would suggest Witt ( and OLP) does not play by those rules: affirmation, negation, points to counter, etc.--again, these (m...
After looking around in the book, I would say, sometimes its close, but not here. As with most words, the 'grammar' of the word allows for many senses...
There are other ways this sentence could be used, yes, but that doesn't mean I have to refute all of them (that it is any of those). The reading is in...
First, it is not made as a claim nor said as a statement to be considered (which are obviously within its possibilities of sense). This is a lesson in...
I'm wondering what text you read to take him to believe effect outweighs intention; not that I feel you're wrong, but I'm curious. J.L. Austin and Sta...
Maybe try not to think of it so much as an argument with a thesis as a reading to put you in a certain perspective to a certain history of philosophy ...
(I hadn't "replied" to your post, so you may not have seen this) Well, I'm sorry to hear that you don't feel you can contribute, and for my flippancy....
Note: In responding, I want to point out that all the quotes being responded to are Wittgenstein’s (not mine)—I'll underline those; and use quotes fro...
I would go with Emerson (a pastor) who Nietschze mirrored. Also, taking up N.'s focus on seeing the context of an actual moral moment that can't be de...
I’m interested in the connection between: how to govern, with: understanding our discourse. As if finding out what mattered, how it matters, how it is...
@"creativesoul": I’m thinking of the structure of current political/social discourse in the framework of analytical philosophy, so, unlike a continent...
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