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Showing posts with label Wittgenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wittgenstein. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2018

"The" natural numbers

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Benacerraf famously pointed out that there are infinitely many isomorphic mathematical structures that could equally well be the referrent o...
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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Whatever content can be conveyed metaphorically can be said literally

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Suppose you say something metaphorical, and by means of that you convey to me a content p . I now stipulate that "It's zinging...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

Deep Thoughts XLII

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No one speaks about what cannot be spoken about.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Expressing and asserting

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Consider the following broadly Wittgensteinian line of thought: Sentences like "I love you", "This is scary" and ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Wittgensteinian anti-literalism

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Consider this Wittgensteinian line of thought about the doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus (similar things can be said about ma...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Wittgensteinian views of religious language

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Wittgensteinians lay stress on the idea that One cannot understand central worldview concepts without living as part of a communit...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

A counterexample to the Private Language Argument

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Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument contends that it is impossible for one to form a language by oneself. Here's a c...
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