Shawn

Yes, and I think that is what Wittgenstein was getting at with the Tractatus. The only thing left out and latterly added ad hoc in the PI was the fact...

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Highly relevant paper by Richard Rorty: http://www.greatbooksojai.com/the-agora-foundation_rorty_education_as_socialization_and_as_individualization.p...

For some reason, the parable of Adam and Eve comes to mind. I tend to agree with this but it leaves out one important fact which I will address in the...

Just thinking aloud about what you said, the problem seems to be how we educate the young? Is that correct?

What does Prisig have to say about this? Yes, the TLP is two dimensional. But, that's how language seems to operate.

Do go on. I am interested. What are your thoughts about children prior to puberty. I don't see the development of the prefrontal cortex by age 25 as t...

Thoughts? I would prefer a dialogue with interested parties.

So, I want to talk about solipsism in the Tractatus, just to spur interest given that a casual chain of progressing from proposition 1 through 7 would...

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Although I don't believe in this, the indispensability argument suffers from the critical flaw of question begging. As to how my cognitive dissonance ...

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That's fine. I'm curious too how this discussion progresses.

Yes, I agree with that. I think Wittgenstein was opposed to Plato. Yet, I'm not sure how to prove it? Could you spell it out?

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No, I just thought this was a place, that's all.

Is this some Spinozian turn? I'm attentively listening if so.

So, you're a nominalist or instrumentalist of math? I'm not sure we can throw 'minds' out of the window...

How so?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetics Relevant seemingly.

So, the sign exists independently of the mind, and the mind only makes it intelligible?

I don't know, is it?

:fear: What do you mean by that?

I mean, this place, the TPF? Right here?

Fascinating stuff, don't you think?

Hmm, interesting. Do the colors persist over time for each individual or change also depending on the context?

If I could conduct a survey of people with Grapheme-color synaesthesia, that would be the first question I would ask, if they perceive each color the ...

It's actually Chuck Noland that talked to Wilson.

Not to someone with Grapheme-color synaesthesia! An interesting phenomenon that I think offers a glimpse into the Platonic realm.

Where's the referent in the sentence, "I like this place."

Glad there are other's out there that recognize this fact. I'm using "fact" loosely here, and I don't even know why, heh.

Don't you think the appearance of this forum or this very place, is a metaphysical construct enabled by the very logically of computers? This gives me...

Pleasure talking with you. :victory:

How so?

So, you're saying Stoicism is committing the naturalistic fallacy?

One thing that has concerned me, and has prohibited me from recognizing Seneca as a true Stoic is the matter of selflessness? What does Stoicism have ...

Kudos to you for being so honest in your self-reflection. I tend to get angry at myself for petty faults whenever I conduct a self-analysis. Yes, it r...

On dear, that attitude won't help anything for the poor fly.

You're a 'dude' then. Sorry, had to say that. Sadly, or happily (depends which generation you are of, as I'm a millennial) you can only find them open...

And moreso why throw away the Wittgensteinian ladder??? Leave it for some other.

@"Banno", I'm thinking about the fly being lead out of the bottle. Have you forsaken this task?

I do. But, haven't I already negated that with this noetic or Platonic realization?

Yeah, I don't subscribe to nominalaism, either in pure form or that of the TLP. It doesn't jive with how we use language in reality.

It died... :death: :flower: Post something if you want. We got stuck on completing propositions 2.5-3.0 Statements are good. Nice and short and withou...

How is that possible?

Admittedly, I've been fixating on the Tractatus. So, what went wrong in the TLP?

Then give me a general layout, and dumb it down a lot for my simple mind. Thanks!

So, what can philosophy do, and what it cannot?

Thanks, will look into that one.