It would be vacuous for a biologist to say "all life shares a family resemblance," and to stop there. Whatever "all life," is it must surely have some...
It's perhaps possible to have experiences while replacing a large part of the body with some sort of system that does functionally the same things as ...
No, it means we can't talk about the "brain alone," creating experience. You'll note that in all your counter examples, e.g. the beam falling on John,...
Consider this famous optical illusion. https://www.businessballs.com/images/shadow-illusion.jpg The "big reveal" is that both labeled squares are "the...
I am not t sure how these are supposed to be counter examples. They still ascribe the property to the thing. Is there a language that does not ascribe...
Right, learning the rules is a prerequisite to playing the game. When we play a game that is new to everyone we sit down with the rules to figure out ...
No, I think I get it. You said that movies cannot be funny, the lemons are not sour, and that apples cannot be red. Presumably waterfalls cannot be su...
Reminds me of the opening of Lewis's Abolition of Man. But of course the larger point is about the "bloated subject," to which all the contents of the...
Here is a pretty common experience if you play a lot of board games. You play a new game. No one involved has ever seen anyone follow the game's rules...
Well I agree, but I don't think it's on my part. A rule isn't just "whenever behavior is the same." I don't take it this is what PI is trying to say e...
My point is that if people are thinking about rules differently then there is a difference, regardless of whether or not their behaviors are identical...
This is just begging the question lol. I mean, I could just as well say color words refer to "the colors of objects." And surely my blue car is not lo...
But are extension in space and motion likewise not in external objects? Seems like you could make the same sort of case there. Same for anything "bein...
Wouldn't this just be behaviorism? But let's say two people are following different rules for some activity. They would both describe the ruleset in d...
People can disagree about size and motion as well, and they can also experience these due to simulation of the brain. Are extension in space, motion, ...
Not necessarily. That's why I asked the question: can you think of any conditions in which it could be judged false? I have no idea why you thought I ...
"Family resemblances" is not an "idea" or "theory" that can be proved wrong. It's a vague metaphor that one could call "true" so long as there are any...
If you include the entire room you would have the temperature difference. Complete knowledge of the room alone would not give you the cup's status as ...
I am not sure where you got that from. The conversation has several examples of animals making use of signs. The interpretant need not be an "interpre...
This is playing off an equivocation in how "reasonable" is commonly used. Of course, if we take "reasonable" to mean something like "appropriate and f...
Well that makes more sense. I think these sorts of biological constants (constant across diverse historical/cultural variances) is what Wittgenstein i...
There are different family structures, there are half siblings, step siblings, etc. Yet, what culture believes in people who do not have biological mo...
I'm not sure how the vague metaphor here is supposed to address the point TBH. But funny enough this is a point of contention in Wittgensteinian circl...
I suppose that, per most forms of physicalism, physics does have to describe human logic in a certain sense. Can it do it? That's an interesting quest...
That's a pretty broad question. There is a fairly popular related view in physics today called "pancomputationalism." Per this view, the universe migh...
I don't think Wittgenstein shows this at all, as evidenced by the extremely diverse directions this thread is taken in by different Wittgensteinians. ...
There is a lot of interesting stuff on the contradictory nature of "sheer indeterminate being," or a "sheer something." A lot of time it's death with ...
I added a more detailed link. Lawvere would be the guy who got the ball rolling in this. Anyhow, we both know "but it doesn't work in classical logic,...
Classical logic can't handle all sorts of stuff. Hegel's logic has generally been dealt with in a category theoretic framework. Or: here Not that this...
Such payments are huge. Remittances, people working in wealthier nations and sending money back home, absolutely dwarf all the charitable and governme...
The problem of people deciding where they want to end up and working backwards for a justification is possible given any type of philosophical method ...
Right, I was just pointing out that this is almost certainly what the reference to "in modern theory," was referring to. This is how the French makes ...
It's a nod to Saussure (and his demonic, hyper-nominalist post-modern semiotics of destruction—as opposed to our Augustine and Co.'s virtuous and sure...
I don't know how historical progression would work if people never died. Death seems as important to the development of the race as the death of indiv...
The hyper nominalism and relativism of some post-structuralist might be an example of what it would be good to avoid. These theories often invoke semi...
I think that's a fair interpretation of how IT is generally interpreted. Popular interpretations of the extreme usefulness of information theory often...
Money is just used as a proxy for opportunity costs. Money is a good proxy because society is, in an important sense, organized around it. Moreover, w...
I forget how she did in the debates. It seems like it should be easy to bait and trigger Trump into a meltdown. I would just pull out all the quotes f...
/uploads/files/70/4p0564o0k4xi2jt9.jpg /uploads/resized/files/1z/3mvgijvw2tiuwuzb.png At a superficial level, it's easy to see how in the Shannon-Weav...
:up: It makes no sense from a naturalized view either. Predators don't benefit from the suffering of their prey, nor from their deaths; at least not i...
IDK, the thing-in-itself seems to do some heavy lifting, e.g. securing human freedom at the end of the Prolegomena. Personally, I think it's just bad ...
You could always do what economists do and just use money as a proxy for freedom. The enhancement of freedom is to be valued at what people are willin...
That's certainly not an uncommon view in history. Consider I Peter 4:6 "For to this end it was announced-as-good-news even to the dead: that they migh...
Plotinus could certainly have ideas that are incoherent or don't cash out well, although I don't think this is true. However, I would say Wayfarer's s...
Perhaps I should have spelled it out a bit more, it is not that action is physically impossible. Rather the issue is that at it is impossible for any ...
Yes, given an "infinite amount of time," or an "eternal realm," it might make sense to think of these relations as eternal. Computation is inheritly s...
:up: This is a perfect example of what I mean by a solid investigation of the "form of life." Certainly. And this could likely be true for language to...
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