Shawn

You seem to be the kind of person that wants the experience the highest of highs and lowest of lows in life. Is my caricature of you accurate?

Haha, THC is one drug that suppresses dreams. Just pointing that out.

That's about as psychedelic as I'm willing to go. Heh.

I attached some other supplementary reading books in my previous comment here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/231811 Let me know wh...

What do you have to say about that, if you don't mind me asking?

I hold the notion that "suicide" is the conclusion of emotional reasoning gone wild. Otherwise, if you're happy, then why would you want to commit sui...

I think there is some merit to that professed belief; but, it is common knowledge that Wittgenstein wanted the Tractatus to be published alongside the...

What do you mean?

That pretty much sums it up.

Thanks for mentioning it again. I just bought a paperback for a cheap 14 greenbacks. It arrives Friday. I'm busy with my other reading groups on Schop...

Then can you advise us on which companion to use? Or PMS Hacker?

:up: Can you show us the way?

But, those aren't natural. In my experience dreams are incredibly psychedelic if you compare them with induced altered states from various drugs.

As Wittgenstein said, "Logic takes care of itself." As to how that is so is a mystery to my mind, and invokes metaphysical abstraction.

Good question. Do I really want to be enlightened? Maybe I just settle with being just "me", whatever that is.

Ah, time. Gotta love it when you have it. I think I've reached my quota on starting new topics. But, I will hope to see you offer your advice on resol...

Well, he does mention a sort of Sorities paradox in regards to identity along with the problem of maintaining that same identity over time. Logic does...

He goes on:

He adds this as a footnote to the above:

I'm asking a question about the process of identification or the criteria of identification according to Kripke. Here is a snippet from the text:

Given that the Investigations' reading group is flourishing, any more takers on this one?

Nothing I know about at the moment. All that is stated is that they are defining "property damage" as "contamination from the fire" near us. My mother...

Very interesting point worthy of starting a topic. How have you been able to resolve the issue?

Yes, there has been a perversion of the term "apatheia" towards the modern day definition of "apathy". I guess I'm rebelling over this perversion here...

Yeah, but, who's laughing?

I included a the simple The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn and a more technical Wittgenstein's Phi...

I know this is all jokes and fun by @"Hanover", and @"Michael"; but, @"Waya" informed me that she felt treated like a "slut" or perceived that injury ...

I've committed myself to the reading groups that I started, which are the Naming and Necessity one by Kripke, and The World as Will and Representation...

No, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, we're not "Lame Stoics", however, Epictetus literally was. I speak of just the "apatheia", characteristic of Stocism, ...

Woo-hoo, settlement oncoming for the particulate damage done to the house I reside in that was located nearby the Woolsey fires. Wonder how much we ca...

I feel like it is a way to immerse yourself in the experience. Or an infantile attempt to "capture" the feeling in one's mind.

I've noticed a mention of essentialism in reading Naming and Necessity. Is that what instantiates identity?

Sorry that you felt like a ghost. Only in dreams, I suppose.

I had a dream that I was walking naked and nobody was paying attention to me. Felt pretty good.

My best friend is an autist. I don't have many friends because I value honesty and the quality of 'not putting on masks' above all else.

@"Hanover", whatever floats your boat, dude.

There is a Buddhist slant to the OP; but, lacking in compassion if one becomes indifferent towards 'desire' then one is left with apathy. Just a passi...

So, are you saying that courage and understanding are the proper responses towards Strife? How does one not indulge in too much indifference, then?

If I recall correctly, @"I like sushi", is still the leader.

Can I get a quick vote on whether we should proceed with or without a companion, like say PMS Hacker or have a short read on Cavell’s paper “The Avail...

But, doesn't the fact that Pegasus or Santa have meaning without material ontological significance in some way refute the strictly material correspond...

In the correspondence theory what objectifies, through denotation or maybe descriptions, meaning? Contextualist or pragmatic interpretations give rise...

Re, the last paragraph, does that simply sidestep the issues the correspondence theory of meaning has wrt. to empty names and instead advocate a conte...

Yes, I stand corrected. If memory serves me right he didn't even want the blue and brown books published.

Please help me recall, anyone, as I have poor memory. Did Wittgenstein not prep students with the blue and brown books used in his lectures before mov...

I think the answer to the question creativesoul brought up inadvertently can be found in this passage:

Hence should we be aware of the significance the blue and brown books may have on this discussion? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_Brown_Book...

Has anyone proposed using any kind of companion where we can refer some of these questions about ostensive definitions and such? Everything seems scat...

This. :sparkle: