Shawn

Is there any correlation between social spending and homogeneous societies?

Homogeneous societies and social welfare.

Do go on, please.

What does that even mean?

Thanks. That really seems to have answered the question.

Yeah, social spending and welfare seem to be linked together.

Well, Trump did sign a directive just today, now how much money is the real question though.

Aren't we taking things a little too seriously here?

Yes, so a wet fish is a senseless proposition, almost a trite tautological truism, and thinking it has meaning is nonsense. Is that right?

Not getting your drift. Enlighten me, as I seem unenlightened on the matter.

Isomorphic? Redundant? I don't entirely know. Is it reasonable to pull the rug upon which we stand? Regarding isomorphism, I don't really have a grasp...

I'm not sure. How can one fail language? I don't understand that concept. Hence proposition 7 in the TLP?

Yeah, so a fish being wet is a tautology. It's only when we treat it as if something that has meaningful content, that nonsense arises, no?

3.03 Thought can never be of anything illogical, since, if it were, we should have to think illogically. Wittgenstein, TLP

So, nonsense seems to be the issue here. As in, asking the fish how does the water feel? EDIT: I think I just Banno'd the Banno.

See the previous comment. Why has language bewitched us here?

Seems good to me. So, what's the issue with language that produces such befuddled statements, as I'm keenly interested in this state of affairs that c...

So, is this an issue of ambiguity or something more fundamental than that, as I feel we are digressing. Perhaps there is no solution, no?

So, a qualifier was needed for the ambiguous quality or property of being 'wet'?

Not necessarily in an informal language. If we want to remove the ambiguity then formalizing the property of being wet would seem of use or economy of...

No, it genuinely seems like a fallacy of composition... made apparent by ambiguity of the property of being 'wet'.

I feel as though language has failed us here, just not sure how.

So, doesn't that mean that someone who doesn't want to work is devoid of any desire to want anything material in the world? It would seem that that co...

Yeah; but, what if they hate their job and want to educate themselves or go back to college, or pursue areas of interest that don't entail an immediat...

Because it turns the subjective self on top of itself. Hehe.

Fichte and his transcendental idealism of the self hits me right in the feels.

So, are facts only exclusive to the correspondence theory of truth? I'm wondering.

So, what are facts in a coherentist view of meaning and truth?

Regarding that, has there been any progress between the coherentist view of truth and the correspondence theory? I'm on the fence.

I think, de gustibus non est disputandum, would be apropo here.

Well, I can see your opposition to the thread. It would in principle deny the actuality of entropofication of social institutions or civilizations as ...

I posted this same thread over at PhysicsForums too, and I'm kinda surprised the whole thread took that turn. Guess my English is really that bad as I...

I don't understand your prejudice about living on Mars. What's so wrong with that I wonder? Who's going to be exploiting whom on Mars or on the moon? ...

The cynicism is strong, here.

No comment. Yeah, and if everything comes down to a matter of what provides the most amount of utility to me, we would all be heroin addicts, yeah?

Yeah, so business as usual for the wolves that hide in sheep clothing under the guise of neo-liberalism. What else is new? Care to address the topic?

Yeah, I was referring to that report, but I edited my post because I couldn't find it.

Disregard

Are we at a dip? Usually, the logic is to sell when everyone else is buying and buy when everyone else is selling.

I also wanted to mention the similarity between religious leaders and philosophers. I often view clergy as one step ahead of the common philosopher in...

From what I understand, philosophy does not have a direct impact or immediate impact on the workings of a nation or state. However, philosophers have ...

I'm assuming that Trump is competent enough to realize that firing Mueller after Comey is suicide. But, the man is full of surprises. Let's see what h...

At least it was a good cause. Or not?

Ol' Freddy had issues. I don't think anyone scores higher on the OCD scale than that guy.

Find me a man that isn't obsessive about anything, and I will call him a Zarathustra.

You can see the notion being presented in this passage, or at least the sentiment to create institutions that are wholly owned or answerable to the pe...

Those are two different kinds of love, of course? Are you being facetious?

No secondary sources apart from Max Blacks interpretation of the TLP. Send me a link to what you have in mind and I'll give it a good reading. Thanks.

Little butthurt, lol! :P

If you could refer me to some other works, as the link seems more like handwaving than a serious philosophical critique of logical atomism.