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Wittgenstein and Pyrrhonism

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Hello urpflanze group: If you're following along on the Wittgenstein as some-kind-of-skeptic thread, here is some further grist for the mill. I provide an
wavelets@pacbell.net
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Aug 5, 2014

Wittgenstein on analyticity

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Hi Neil: It sounds like you are closer to the traditional formalist philosophy of mathematics. Also, almost all mathematicians, whether they are formalists or
wavelets@pacbell.net
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Aug 4, 2014

Danto on Wittgenstein on art

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Thanks, Ron. I am inclined to agree that Wittgenstein was not a metaphysical behaviorist. But you are probably right, that he was not a methodological
wavelets@pacbell.net
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Jul 17, 2014

Wittgenstein and Behaviorism

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________________________________ From: Ron Allen To: urpflanze@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:57 PM Subject: Re:
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Mar 21, 2012

I really do think the guy might be insane

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Right. And if he were 17 or 18, we might say "That guy's kind of weird, isn't he?--Thinks he's all that or something." But at his age, to think people he
walto
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Mar 5, 2012

Two recent debates on early Wittgenstein exegesis

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Hi John:   You have in mind Marie McGinn's book Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language, right? Thanks! --Ron ...
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Feb 17, 2012

Completeness of the Slab Language in Philosophical Investigations

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Thanks Walter! I'm at work and can't access a lot of the features on that website. The text is vertical right now, but I can probably rectify that at home
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Feb 15, 2012

Remarks on Logical Form

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... Note: this is precisely the tension I see as leading to phenomenology, as noted in my previous post. Phenomenology (in the Austrian tradition), in
wavelets@...
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Feb 14, 2012

Re: [Wittrs] on the language games of "race" and "racism"

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(cross-posted from Wittrs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ ) I've been dealing with some health issues and haven't participated much in online philosophy
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Feb 13, 2012

AWOL moderator

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Always a pleasure, John. You have attracted some excellent interlocutors. Don't let the afflictions and distractions get you too far down. Herzlich! --Ron ...
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Feb 9, 2012

I am finally became Boss...

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Hi John & all: I just noticed this. I'm working on figuring out how this happened. AT&T has been messing around with their site, and a lot of stuff is screwed
Ron Allen
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Nov 25, 2011

Tractatus and possible States of Affairs

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Hello urpflanze gruppe:   More on whether an Escher-type "impossible object" is still impossible as a state of affairs in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. This is
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Nov 15, 2011

Some reflections on rule-following

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A child learns to walk and run but also learns what it means to walk or run, i.e. what counts as "walking" or "running". Or rather: they are given examples
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Aug 24, 2011

Classic Strangelove

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I suppose that's fitting with the discussion of malapropisms and such, though it's more akin to a typo. Other than that, such drama... meh.
walto
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Aug 11, 2011

Apropos of Zettel 328

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I see a couple of my faves aren't in that batch: "Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more
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Aug 9, 2011
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