Shawn

That's I think what I meant to point out. Philosophy can be no substitute for life, try and we might.

Does anyone have any luck with achieving remission? I feel ailed and dead inside.

Sometimes images are overdetermined, and I suspect that is often the case in philosophy.

But, you're mistaking the forest for the trees here. Dimensionality is not captured in a single image. You need multiple overlaying images at differen...

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I'm not sure I'm getting the drift here. Objects populate the world and can be called names, their relations are asserting a different kind of truth i...

Sorry; but, this is obviously a false cause fallacy, Just pointing that out.

Because it oversimplifies things to simple binary states, which you of all people know that's not how nature operates in practice. (Human nature).

And have your whole identity based on a single defect? No thanks,

I think a friend is someone who will tell you when you're doing a wrong when you think you're doing a right. We won't go out of our way to correct ung...

Oh heavens. Not that. We don't need any more martyrdom.

I meant to say that presenting humans as imperfect goods or broken goods is a strange and warped POV. I'm not sure if you're professing that here. Peo...

I can see the relation to your profile avatar. Yet, we are never idealized in terms of being broken goods. Only monsters say that.

I don't know. We're both scratching our heads aren't we?

This is an interesting point you raise. Reagan spoke about the need for little green men to exist to unite the world against a common enemy. Why hasn'...

Dichotomistic thinking is the bane of philosophy. I wanted to purchase a book presenting philosophy in terms of a dialectical manner progressing from ...

I love fireworks. And that dude seemed to be troubled by the experience. I feel sorry for people who cannot convey their own truths to other people an...

This. Fact's exist relative to an observer. It's a fact.

The cat is meowing at @"Michael".

I think I'm getting the drift here. But, we aren't collectively hallucinating here or anything. There are things out there that we can agree on. If th...

That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm also saying that truth becomes irrelevant if there's a no win situation. Someone always has to feel like they are ...

But, what if an agreement is of higher value than truth itself? Is that a problematic position to hold? If I can't uphold my end of the bargaining sti...

The cat is meowing again.

In my mind, Wittgenstein was not professing mind-independent facts. This is central to his argument for solipsism.

Are you leading us to believe in idealism? There are some elements of idealism present in the Tractatus. Like what PMS Hacker calls 'transcendental so...

Oh, that's interesting. Hope you keep us posted.

Can you expand on that? I'm keen on learning better the metaphysics of the Tractatus. It just seemed natural in my mind. Logic, the totality of facts,...

Sure did! What about your thoughts on Tractarian ontology? I can't shake the suspicion that Wittgenstein was some monist in the Tractatus. Because log...

I've long held the suspicion that Wittgenstein of the Tractatus was a monist or believed in modalism of atomic facts. What are some thoughts about thi...

And: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.724.9022&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Relevant: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-facts-in-logical-space-a-tractarian-ontology/

I don't see what's wrong with that argument. I agree that if you read Kant it might help better understand the Tractarian ontology of facts existing i...

Not really. Again, facts aren't mind independent. Which, gives me the suspicion that Wittgenstein still held onto Kantian transcendentalism in some se...

As far as I'm aware, Wittgenstein of the Tractatus was a nominalist. That's all I can figure out on the matter. @"Sam26" might have to chime in.

Pragmatically speaking, all of this makes sense. How couldn't it?

Atomic facts are those things and relations you talk about. Contrast this with sachlage and sachverhalten.

It means that facts have a greater ontological significance than things. Atomic facts that are. States of affairs are important too.

But, after all the world is the totality of facts, not things. Facts are not mind-independent though. On a hard reading, you can designate facts as ha...

Both. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I like to think that Rogerian agreements are the best. But, unenlightened is correct I. That we can still be wrong, although it's a matter of degrees ...

No, he was a philosopher. A mystic of sorts.

I think mathematics is something I could double major in. I have the mind for it. Although, I hate vector calculus with a passion.

I'd think it would provide some framework where I could enhance my skills.

Yes, that's my main gripe with doing philosophy academically. Wittgenstein wouldn't approve.

I'm not sure, I suppose that one can have facts that are mind-dependent. I wouldn't assert that facts are mind-independent.

I find the unrestrained individualism problematic. At one end fine, if that's what you want to do. But, there are cures for the disease that are being...

I never really tried committing suicide. But, it takes some real balls to go through the act. I hope that my comment wasn't meant to insinuate anythin...

Both, I think. Wittgenstein of the Tractatus would say that the objects exist in logical space and their representation is what can be made apparent t...

Hard to say. It's not in my ability to assess the merit of psychological profundity.

Read about overdetermination.