Shawn

Let me know what were your difficulties? I seem to fixate on problems instead of solutions.

Just talking with myself online; but, I feel as if this were an issue in a deep-seated sense of cynicism and lack of belief in true change or lack of ...

I would like to highlight that these feelings towards the field of psychiatry, and subsequently psychology have stemmed from the outright stigma I hav...

And he left six kids behind with this act. It's a tragedy for them more than anything else.

What about the next favodity adulterant of choice, being Cannabis? How does it fit into this depiction of retreat from hyper-normalization?

This sounds like a perfect time to live in the present if you're disturbed by the past and future. So, is the horse leading the cart or otherwise? I m...

Apples and oranges, or in this case a broken foot and clinical depression. Sure, both might not be in working order; but, determining when the mind/br...

Here's an interesting article which I found in regards to the placebo effect. The weird power of the placebo effect, explained. Sorry for the delay in...

Ok, here's the killer: 3.2.0.3. A name means an object. The object is its meaning. (‘A’ is the same sign as ‘A’.) So, nominalism or not? I think nomin...

I'm sorry, the previous is untrue due to the following proposition. 3.1.4.4. Situations can be described but not given names. (Names are like points; ...

Now, if we think of pictures as names of situations and states of affairs, then that would seemingly close the loop of a nominalistic interpretation o...

Here is a proposition in support of my assumption that the Tractatus professes a nominalist tone. 2.0.2.4. The substance is what subsists independentl...

I think the issue gets resolved when we make the claim that something just is the same thing as it is. Tarskian semantics also does help. The liar jus...

Yes, that is of interest to me. If you care to elaborate I would appreciate that.

I think everything with an ostensive definition. Are there things without ostensive definitions? Yes, but nominalism applies to them also in terms of ...

Tiff must be happy with this news: http://www.12news.com/opinion/go-ask-ozzy/arizona-is-the-first-state-to-host-fda-trial-in-the-world-for-veterans-lo...

I strongly doubt that even the early Wittgenstein thought there was one whole entire picture of the universe or reality. Again, each and every picture...

A quote in support of what I have mentioned in my previous two posts could be; If a lion could speak, we could not understand him. (PI, p.223)

I would call this sort of subject based nominalism as a sort of psychological nominalism which Wittgenstein greatly elaborates in the Investigations. ...

What makes you say that the conclusion in the Tractatus is holistic? The nominalism in the Tractatus seems to be with the subject who observes the wor...

Ok, I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

I tend to think that there can be no facts without deduction of some sort. This is independent of proper names and direct referants/rigid designators....

Can you expand on that? I don't think I entirely see your position.

Well, if your purpose here is to prove that you're 'right', then you're in the wrong forum. You have no ground to say that 'it fell' doesn't succeed i...

Yeah, but you haven't demonstrated that the representation of a tree falling by, 'it fell' or 'it has fallen', as incomplete. If it is, then you can a...

The last line of the Tractatus is: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” If the issue is with representing the fact that the tree fe...

Then, How is something a linguistic reality and then becomes a physical reality? If we assume that linguistic reality accurately depicts physical real...

Semantics. It falls just means that it falls. What else can be said?

Drop the double standards, please.

So, in my opinion, and in cohort with the pragmatists, it seems that facts are the physical laws and mathematical truths that govern the world at play...

Glad that you brought up modalities. Not that it explains what a fact is, but rather enhances its ontological footprint.

Yeah, but we've already presupposed that the tree falls. Get the paradox? The rationale is that there are elementary facts of which nothing can be sai...

Yes, but the limits of my language are the limits of my world. Thus, solipsism?

This seems to be a matter of where does one derive meaning from? Is it the fact or the subject-object relation that we're really talking about here, f...

Yes, but Wittgenstein specifically uses the term 'logical atomic facts' or 'simples'. These seem to point towards a nominalism of some sort. But, then...

What part don't you understand?

The doomsday weapon was proposed as a sort of reductio ad absurdum by Herman Kahn. Strategists never took the idea seriously.

This seems to be a common sentiment. I don't think any nation is amassing nuclear weapons and actively pointing them at other nations as per the cold ...

Just Python at the moment. Its not important for my major (economics) but I heard its pretty useful and versatile nevertheless. I still need to finish...

Well I am trying to learn some programming skills but its ardious and going very slowly. If there's shit in the soup there's shit in the soup. Ill sto...

Nope. Its all jelly.

Its not moping if your disabled. Go figure.

I am, and thank you and others once again. Ill be sure to add you guys to my Paypal monthly billing account once I'm on disability.

The emotions are strong in this one.

Its just a matter of taste then. But since you run and own the place its your call. Having ads run the place just makes the place self sufficient and ...

Ok, was just a passing thought from an impoverished pseudo philosopher who appreciates this forum.

Does anyone on principle have any issues with seeing a small ad on the top of the page? I really think its a matter of being pragmatic and deriving th...

Could we put up a small ad from Amazon? I really think its a matter of being pragmatic and have no issues with seeing one quality ad from now and then...

Reading Birdy is hitting me in the feels. Anyone read Birdy? Such a read.

In feeling Slavic. Someone pass the kielbasa, chleb, and vodka.