Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it. — ernestm
Wittgenstein actually is telling you that everything you ever thought was truth in your entire life could be wrong. It does take a little time for that to sink in. — ernestm
Of course, there is no necessity for that either, and one can see a lot of philosophers these days falling into rather depressive solipsistic skepticism. — ernestm
That's quite interesting as Wittgenstein professed a very strong version of solipsism in the Tractatus. — Question
When doing philosophy, I have certain meanings in mind, and not all the other uses of words, because I'm engaging in philosophy, instead of trying to avoid going out in the mist or cooking dinner. — Marchesk
But what I tried to explain, via the analogy with cryptographic key exchange, is that it still enables fruitful communication with others possessing their own private colors, via mixing with the correct public shared color. — ernestm
That is to say, W holds that a theory of meaning and metaphysics is NOT NECESSARY for effective communication. — ernestm
It is undeniable that the only reason the entire planet is not in perpetual war is because enough diplomats have learned how to lie to each other gracefully, and it is too frequently the case that in-laws don't cause divorces is because they lie when they have to. — ernestm
By the way, why were there groceries out in the car if Bob was still in his PJs? Had Alice gone out shopping before breakfast? Or was it an evening shopping trip and Bob had already got ready for bed? I think that's the real mystery in this scenario. — andrewk
That's very well put, but all it seems to be saying is that sometimes we're not interested in the truth value of a stated proposition, or its boundary conditions, or a scientific account. Instead, the proposition encodes for another unstated meaning. — Marchesk
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