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Given the limitations of communication online, as I actually said that it was not meant to be a snide comment, then I rest my case as there's no furth...
October 04, 2024 at 22:00
So, I'll try and restate the topic subject to the question as to why the reader thinks Wittgenstein called Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, a logical ...
October 04, 2024 at 21:30
Sure, if all you wanted to point out was my misunderstanding of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems then you made your point. Rest assured your mockery of...
October 04, 2024 at 21:19
I don't mean to be snide; but, if you haven't acquainted yourself with the halting problem, then it would clarify any confusion about how definitions ...
October 04, 2024 at 20:38
I think that what one can figure from stating psychology in this way is that by having a body of knowledge upon which we can formulate bedrock beliefs...
October 04, 2024 at 15:50
It was hardly a mistake, as some might think it was. Wittgenstein stated in the Investigations that many of his thoughts had been continued and expand...
October 04, 2024 at 15:41
Only in the UK are people this friendly with pigs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIw_J_X6Fgk
October 04, 2024 at 15:09
Well at the time Hilbert's program was one instance, as you say. I don't have any to provide.
October 04, 2024 at 05:23
So, one may be able to do so in some other formal language? I'm of the understanding that for a complexity class size to be complete and consistent, s...
October 04, 2024 at 05:19
Decidability for P verses NP, in computer science, is considered complete and consistent.
October 04, 2024 at 05:06
Not to disregard what you said; but, thank you for the clarification. I edited that post which you addressed because it was inaccurate. There are so m...
October 04, 2024 at 04:42
Yes; but, returning to what was said in the OP, then I believe that if logic is tautological, then the only constraints on systems of logic are the wa...
October 04, 2024 at 04:11
I'd like to add to my previous post, that the implications of incompleteness have been only demonstrated by incorporating new procedural rules into a ...
October 04, 2024 at 04:00
I always thought the solution to the problem of certain logical systems needed to compute undecidable problems, is solved by appealing to greater comp...
October 04, 2024 at 03:44
I do not like stating this in formal systems like Peano Arithmetic; but, rather in terms of decidability. By framing the question in terms of decidabi...
October 04, 2024 at 03:22
Yes, well I think you are referencing Rosner? Can you provide the reference? Yes, I would like to point out that I am not denying the logical validity...
October 04, 2024 at 03:10
Whatever works. I've seen this countless times of someone pointing out a logical fallacy and the other person just deflecting it. Anyway, thanks for t...
October 04, 2024 at 02:41
Well, you begged the question so many times about what are concepts, that I'm not surprised.
October 04, 2024 at 02:34
I think we can agree @"Banno" that concepts are human abstractions, yes?
October 04, 2024 at 02:23
Here, I hope you can look at the article on ontological commitment entailed by universal quantification for "concepts": https://plato.stanford.edu/ent...
October 04, 2024 at 02:19
If concepts are not things, then they do not have any ontology. The existence of a universal, which concepts would not have, according to what you are...
October 04, 2024 at 02:11
Yes, well, this is where I agree with universal quantification and would subscribe to some form of ontology to what concepts are and how they derive t...
October 04, 2024 at 01:59
Yes, concepts are used in different ways. The way we use words is largely defined by grammar, and that's just a factual definition. So, I don't unders...
October 04, 2024 at 01:44
There's no need to beg the question. If you're looking for a specific answer, then go ahead, provide one. Sure; but, words aren't objects. I'm mostly ...
October 04, 2024 at 01:21
Again, I am not interested in the complexity of the external aspect of a concept, this is something that Austin described with speech acts and stuff l...
October 04, 2024 at 01:03
Sure; but, if we're to talk about how Wittgenstein saw it, then I would like to mention his concern with how rules are followed and obeyed. I think th...
October 04, 2024 at 00:42
Yes, well, every concept is defined by what rules govern their use in a language game. I don't think these rules exist outside the hypothetical realm ...
October 04, 2024 at 00:27
It sounds oversimplified, and there's much more to say; but, sure, by having a common grammar we are able to understand even concepts. From the inner ...
October 04, 2024 at 00:06
I never really approached this question the way others do. I've always held that by obeying the same grammar, which allows people to coherently formul...
October 03, 2024 at 23:48
About the passage of the Philosophical Investigations, I/§383, regarding "concepts as words" and Wittgensteins nominalism.
October 03, 2024 at 23:34
Is there a loophole in this rule regarding using Gemini? Gemini is Google's AI algorithm that condenses a search result to a paragraph or two. Since G...
October 03, 2024 at 22:22
Yes, dare one say this approach was almost taken to "scientific" standards. Yet, I feel as though it was a work guided by sheer intelligence, to state...
October 03, 2024 at 22:04
@"Banno", may I kindly ask, what do you think?
October 03, 2024 at 21:30
Here is the quoted passage from the Investigations on what, seemingly, Wittgenstein continued in his methodology between his earlier period and latter...
October 03, 2024 at 21:29
Here's an old thread of mine. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2452/wittgenstein-and-nominalism
October 03, 2024 at 21:27
What do you mean by "its own criteria"? I view it as methodological nominalism, which the Investigations appealed to.
October 03, 2024 at 21:09
I believe that what Wittgenstein was alluding to, in modern terminology, was the study of syntax and linguistics. In those fields, what Wittgenstein s...
October 03, 2024 at 05:34
I believe he meant it both ways at the time. Although people consider the first analytic philosopher as Bertrand Russell, I think the logical positivi...
October 03, 2024 at 05:24
I think, with what you said in mind, Wittgenstein was very strict, in the Tractatus, about drawing a line between science and philosophy, for reasons ...
October 03, 2024 at 05:17
I think that the practice of philosophy and the philosopher are one and the same, according to Wittgenstein's ethos. Yes, well the bewitchment of our ...
October 03, 2024 at 04:36
I don't consider ChatGPT an authority on issues; but, sometimes it can help inform an ill-construed thread about how the issue pertains to whatever qu...
September 30, 2024 at 17:32
Did the conspiracy between good and evil against Job make any sense to you?
September 30, 2024 at 17:00
Ooo, a Stoic slant on Wittgenstein... Thanks for this.
September 30, 2024 at 05:05
Yes, this is something that is ambiguous about the Bible. Does God hand out evil as punishment or does this whole Satan guy do it instead or for Him, ...
September 30, 2024 at 03:19
A pig squealed It was hungry It got angry and left
September 29, 2024 at 21:14
Yet, evil exists, and is persecuted by God. Thus, God, who allowed evil to manifest in the world - must have disliked evil for it to be persecuted by ...
September 29, 2024 at 19:58
Seems like material for a good discussion in the Philosophy of Religion category, eh?
September 29, 2024 at 18:54
Regarding pigs, which you are referring to... Maybe God created something he didn't like?
September 29, 2024 at 18:30
Yes, they are very fun animals. Too bad their meat is tasty. Look at these pigs, they're so pink and happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LJAFrUss...
September 29, 2024 at 03:29
Yes, as they say, in a pig's eye.
September 29, 2024 at 02:12