Sure, but note that I said (in different words) that articulate doubt trusts/obeys sociolinguistic conventions that make it intelligible, even for the questioner. — Yellow Horse
Personally I'm wary of calling expressions senseless. In context, 'what is nothing' might be in pursuit of a clarification of what we even mean by 'nothing.' Clarification in general would be a kind of reduction --- and not the elimination --- of fuzziness, often connected to action. — Yellow Horse
Is this not equivalent to a philosophical revolution that installs itself securely against all further revolutions?
If you will pardon the poetry: to dream the nonsense detector is to dream the death of philosophy as its completion. — Yellow Horse
the asking of a question involves trust in the certainties of linguistics? — dex
Pointlessness more relates to nonsense utterances that are linguistically inane. — dex
Distinguishing sense and senseless from nonsense might be achieved through knowing where that logical scaffold ends; distinguishing sense from senseless, through knowing where knowledge ends. — dex
Seems like this stuff is Wittgenstein's meat and gravy. — dex
The best question to ask would be one that does not assume anything about existence. Perhaps the best question is the one that does not assume the need to question in the first place? — Benj96
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