College Educated Midwit.
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So, the police rough up a 5 year old?
What is your point exactly?
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Jun 14
Can someone explain how saying that the US is NOT WILLING to destroy Iran to win the war, is Violent Speech?
Is X retarded?
What's going on here?
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Jun 14
That which the proposition must have in common with reality in order to represent reality, and which is identical to itself in every proposition, is the proposition's form of representation.
This property is the Logical Form
A logical structure must, therefore, exist...1/x
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in Reality independently of its representation in a proposition if the proposition is to represent anything at all.
A logical structure given in a proposition is about absolutely nothing if there is no independently existing logical structure in reality to which it corresponds.
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Jun 14
I'm not really that concerned here with whether or not Wittgenstein got everything right.
I am curious, however, as to why philosophers think the arrangements of symbols they produce represent anything real.
And if they don't, then what, exactly, is the point of philosophy?
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Jun 14
"What is the fact being represented?"
"Why are you always asking about facts? Have you even read any philosophy?"
"Well, if that property which the proposition has in common with reality, and which makes representation of reality possible at all, is its form of...1/x
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Jun 14
representation, then only that which has this common property can be represented rightly or falsely."
"So, what does all of this have to do with facts?"
"It is only the fact that has that property which makes it possible to represent reality at all."
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Jun 13
All kidding aside, if you're able to comprehend the issue at stake, and you want some mild amusement, go ask the philosophers the following question:
If proposition P is true, but P does not assert a fact about reality, then what is it that makes P true?
It's hilarious.
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Jun 13
If a proposition does not assert a fact, then what does it assert?
If a proposition does assert a fact, what must the proposition and the fact have in common for the proposition to assert that fact?
How do we know when a proposition asserts a fact?
You might think...1/x
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that philosophers have good answers to these questions.
If you want to be amused, go ask them.
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Jun 11
"So we brought in a few people that rape you and try to cut your heads off, what are you so upset about?"
UK's Political Class
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Plato's Forms do not exist in a Mind, therefore, The Forms are different in kind from a concept which does exist in a mind. Since the concept of "The Good" which exists in a mind is not identical in kind to the Form of The Good, if the concept is to be an...1/x
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accurate representation of the Form, it must be isomorphic to it.
Philosophy can give no account of what this shared identity might consist in, or how the mind could acquire knowledge of The Forms in the first place.
Other than that, though, Platonism is pretty solid.
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One way to look at the LA Mayoral race is that the votes counted after election day went almost exactly like they needed to for Pratt to lose.
Almost exactly.
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To be clear, Raman could have got 100 percent of the mail in ballots, but even democrats might understand that couldn't happen.
Given the total number of ballots, and Pratt's initial lead, Raman got almost exactly the percentage she needed to just pass Pratt.
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"The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts."
This is a quote from Bertrand Russell in the introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
Based on my interactions w philosophers, I find it hard to believe that a philosopher has ever said such a thing.
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I mean, I'm being completely serious when I say that most philosophers, and I am talking about actual philosophers you may have heard of, don't even think their claims should be grounded in matters of fact, let alone assert them.
What went wrong?
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"75 percent of Americans don't trust politicians, or the government to do what is right."
"Do you have any evidence that politicians, or the government, are not doing what is right?"
"Hard evidence? Not really"
"Then why are you spreading lies about politicians and the govt?"
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Wittgenstein complained that his contemporaries, including Russell, did not understand the Tractatus.
I can't speak to that, but I can say that I have never seen a single post on philosophy X that even implies a basic comprehension of the problem Wittgenstein...1/x
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Wittgenstein obviously got things right in the Tractatus.
Meaningful propositions are structurally isomorphic to possible verification experiences because structural isomorphism is the relation that makes representation possible.
All other propositions are meaningless twaddle.
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