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Oh, okay. Sorry to misinform otherwise. I'm sure a PDF is available online somewhere. I go search for one, now. Do you want to assist us with this rea...

Do you want to be the leader of the reading group on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason? I'd happily oblige to your directionality on the issue.

*laughs*

I mean to imply that we start a reading group on Kant's monumental work with some companion in mind. It was a Copernican revolution in philosophy, acc...

I see this was added. What's your take on solipsism. Surely, one cannot become a solipsist with regards to their own mother. Maybe had you been adopte...

Yes, it does sound very religious. To want to get help entails that one admits that one needs help. That seems like the biggest obstacle to overcome i...

I think, that trust is an issue for any person who has experienced trauma. Even (or especially) a schizophrenic experiences trust issues. Trust is suc...

I'm reading the paper provided by @"fdrake"; but, am perplexed by it. Shall we start preemptively?

I wonder though, to entertain a more positivistic aspect of the issue. What is required to "emerge" from this "stuck in reverse or neutral" aspect of ...

That's interesting. I take an approach towards treating trauma tantamount to the appearance of psychosis, though from an external and not internal eve...

It seems to me to be a matter of "hope to get better". This can be provided by the active and imaginative part of the childlike psyche. Trauma often r...

So, @"Banno", the limits of my language are the limits of my world? Has meaning been expressed adequately with "I love you more than words can say."?

Hmm. I think it's quite a strong thing to say; but, then again all you need is love... Anyway, one applies the universal quantifier to its meaning, wh...

So, if I say, "I hate you more than anything." Is it the same type of expression as "I love you more than words can say."?

Then it's a matter of scope, no?

That entails the sentence itself, doesn't it?

But, self-referentiality plays a role in expressing its meaning, no?

What do you think about what andrewk said? Here's it again:

No, I'm just a student relishing in old wisdom.

BTW, andrewk, could you refer me to where I can read up on more of what you already said? Seems interesting.

Yes; but I refer you back to what @"andrewk" said. Namely, the sentence achieves inequality in the case of the Commodore 64. In the case of the intent...

I don't know. That's just one component of the meaning of the sentence, is what I meant. Self-referentiality, the other.

No, because there's no room for ambiguity and vagueness to fill in there as in the case with qualitative aspects of the intentionality of "love" in th...

I'm not sure. It seems to me that to talk about intentionalities in the manner of being of greater significance/meaning than "what words can say" seem...

Waiting for @"Banno" to chime in.

But, intentions have no measure of equality. Do they? They're purely qualitative, with no quantitative measure.

It doesn't appear to be self-referential in the same manner that "I love you more than words can say." Is it? I don't know if intentionality is a fact...

Well, sure. But, do you have any example in mind?

Well, that includes the words in the sentence itself, no?

In "I love you more than words can say", I'm assuming that it's the "than words can say" part. The words obviously being the words of the sentence its...

Then, is the meaning of "I love you more than words can say." obtained from self-referentiality?

To post something philosophical, the sentence "I love you more than words can say." appears to be a self-referential sentence, is that true? It would ...

Thank you Baden.

Innocent until proven guilty? Let's give it a chance on the front page at least? Could invite some serious discussion about meaning?

Why was this moved to the Lounge? It's a legitimate question.

I see! Thanks.

Hello, Dagny, we're reading the Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein in this thread. You're welcome to start a reading group on The Rep...

What a lovely name for a cow. She must have been a smart cow. Moo!

I posted a topic some time ago "On 'rule-following'". If anyone is interested in delving into how we maintain, obey, and follow rules I welcome others...

Very. :) So, again essentialism rears its head.

Yes, and what more can you say? I'm lost again...

Then what are counterfactuals if not definite descriptions for events that could have happened otherwise?

@"fdrake", could you please post the PDF of the paper? Quite interested in getting this started.

Somewhat circular; by, stipulating them. Metaphysics implies that there might be a possible world where they actually obtain. Hence, I think we should...

I don't know. Probably to kill time, and wallow around. I like to wallow; but, I'm in a constant struggle to wallow less and philosophize more. Oh wel...

And, here is where we get into metaphysics. How does the counterfactual obtain (or is instantiated) when saying Banno had eggs with bacon and cornflak...

But, "raining" or "to rain" is a verb, not a subject.

How so? Your getting close to "it".

So, the subject is the fact that it is raining by the weather conditions? Is that what "it" is pointing at in the sentence; "it is raining"?

So, it's the 'rain' yes?