[Wittrs] Re: Wittgenstein and Whether Brains Behave
- From: "jrstern" <jrstern@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:04:31 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@...> wrote:
>[snip]
>Or perhaps it is best thought of an a warning against reification.
>[snip]
Yes.
But not (just) the reification of the pineapple,
but the reification of propositional content separate from whatever
you have in your head (brain) that allows it to deal with the
pineapple. Because, yes, even in an LW grammar, you are allowed
to have some kind of ... linguistic ... thing ... in your head
that has some relationship, per a language game, to the distal
pineapple. And that is not a reification, it is, perhaps, a
representation, a token that plays a role ... and the details of
that are exactly where LW leaves off providing clear answers.
Josh
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