[lit-ideas] Re: Mooreian Paradoxes
- From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:47:48 +0000
This is "philosophy for idiots"
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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 offer of a handshake - say between two people who had some
disagreement 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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