Here is my hand :)
O.K.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:28 PM, <epostboxx@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
offer of a handshake - say between two people who had some disagreement
On 22 May 2015, at 17:56, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect that 'here is my hand' would suggest, in ordinary language, an
before. I can't think of many situations in which 'here is a hand' would be
used as an ontological claim, in ordinary language. (Outside of the
philosophy department at Cambridge.)
Cf.: “I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden;
he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree',
pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives
and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane.
We are only doing philosophy.'”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, ON CERTAINTY
Chris Bruce
in Kiel,
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