My Ludwig quote of the day is: It is very difficult not to deceive oneself...... A note of my own is: science does not help there. Solving a cross-word puzzle...
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Arturo Fatturi
analysis62@...
Apr 25, 2012 4:05 pm
My quote. " Is certainly possible to be convinced by evidence that someone is in such-and-such a state of mind, that, for instance, he s not pretending. But...
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Phil Snow Leopard
wittrs@...
Apr 25, 2012 7:10 pm
His first and best. Nothing ever has (and I doubt ever will) strike me as more profound, more poetic and more spiritual than: 'The world is all that is the...
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walto
wittrs@...
Apr 26, 2012 5:50 pm
"In fact, all propositions of our everyday language, just as they stand, are in perfect logical order. - That utterly simple thing, which we have to formulate...
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Han Geurdes
wittrs@...
Apr 26, 2012 6:17 pm
That is a beautiful one ! ... An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
Apr 29, 2012 6:21 pm
Taking time away from Quakers (might get there for social hour) to write to Officer Bader and the Wittgenstein list, twixt April 26 and 29, our three days to...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
Apr 30, 2012 12:48 am
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:21 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@...> wrote: ... Correction. We'd be "flouting" white man ("") law, not "flaunting" it. ...
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WittrFeed
wittrs@...
May 3, 2012 12:07 am
Hi, Sean, OK, this is a bit later than the November date I'd given you earlier. :) ...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 6, 2012 4:38 am
I wanted to make a note or two regarding my most recent reading. Jaakko Hintikka's 'On Wittgenstein' (Wadsworth Philosophers Series, 2000). On pg 15 he takes...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 7, 2012 6:54 am
Apologies -- I didn't realize at first this was sent to me for forwarding. I mistakenly thought I was reading something already forwarded. Kirby ... From:...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 8, 2012 4:24 am
... Having been listening to Sean's lectures recently, I'm inclined to apply his Lego Theory of Meaning (LTM -- mocking the formalists, toying with them,is...
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Anne-Marie Sønder...
wittrs@...
May 10, 2012 3:59 pm
Third International Conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society Wittgenstein, the Philosophy of Education and the Education of Philosophy Teaching and...
Working on the "race" meme some more, on one of the STEM boards I invest in: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7819173 ...
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WittrFeed
wittrs@...
May 15, 2012 6:08 pm
On Serious Philosophy, I had asked what the stakes were to the on going debate between Stuart and the others. One of the replies was from Larry Tapper, who...
On Serious Philosophy, I had asked what the stakes were to the on going debate between Stuart and the others. One of the replies was from Larry Tapper, who...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 18, 2012 9:25 pm
"I felt the absence of philosophy, which used to have more to say about the human condition, before getting run over by computer science. Philosophers would...
... I just had another meeting with Alex (Aris) who leant me the Hintakka tomes (one his monograph about Wittgenstein, another about Godel, and the last about...
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WittrFeed
wittrs@...
May 21, 2012 10:25 pm
The next meeting of the Wittgenstein Workshop is this Friday, May 25. Our speaker will be Amos Browne (University of Chicago, graduate student) "Rationality...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 21, 2012 10:30 pm
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Wittr2Feed <wittrs2feed@...> wrote: << snip >> ... Heh. I'd call this "begging the question" big time. What if...
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SWM
wittrs@...
May 22, 2012 4:14 pm
The issue, Kirby, is whether "thinking" and "feeling" are just so many complicated information processing functions (in which case we ought to be able to...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 22, 2012 5:09 pm
... I don't see these as the two alternatives. "Thinking" and "feeling" a workaday symbols following complex rules. We may already use them with respect to...
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Yrsa Neuman
wittrs@...
May 22, 2012 5:19 pm
CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordic Wittgenstein Review #2 The new journal Nordic Wittgenstein Review invites submissions. The journal welcomes original contributions on...
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SWM
wittrs@...
May 22, 2012 8:19 pm
... No dispute about the range of uses. I will just restate here that I am using the terms as we use them with regard to ourselves, i.e., that they denote...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 22, 2012 11:53 pm
... A problem in getting a handle on Watson's mental life is some empiricists may suspect a subconscious feedback loop wherein the desire of the experimenter...
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SWM
wittrs@...
May 23, 2012 2:52 am
... That's true. It's a methodological problem for the testing phase. ... By "mental processes" do you mean thoughts or just the whirring and purring of the...
... haven't had much time to update the Wittgenstein course webpage, but I did just add the slides. I'll get movie clips up over the summer. I've got to devote...
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kirby urner
wittrs@...
May 25, 2012 3:01 am
... I listened to the first tape on Investigations today. Pretty good on how denotative models, ala Tractatus, have fallen by the wayside; no one believes them...
