Thinking Like Wittgenstein
I recently listed Ludwig Wittgenstein as one of three essential philosophers who can add surprising clarity and vital new perspective to frustrating debates about ethics, political ideology and the...
View ArticleHas logical positivism been successfully debunked?
What would the world look like if logical positivism had been “debunked”? – A question I have been requested to answer on Quora (“your best source for knowledge”, so the advertisement). (I hate these...
View ArticleLogical positivism debunked (1): The philosophy that cannot even prove that...
Logical positivism: all statements that can't be empirically verified are meaningless. — Ryan (@ryan_the_kang) March 11, 2014 Response to logical positivism: you can't empirically verify that claim… —...
View ArticleLogical positivism debunked (2): falsifications beat verifications – Karl...
In the Laundry. You are handed back your belongings all washed, and you notice that this is not your jacket. Actually you see your jacket hanging there right behind the manager. You point at it, yet he...
View ArticleWhy Logical Positivism is a Dead Philosophy
In philosophy, death occurs when there is nothing more to talk about. In the case of logical positivism, modern physics is pretty much all logical positivism. It is the raw extraction of data from...
View ArticleFurther thoughts on Tractatus 5.1361 | by Gary Smith
I think that is a very useful distinction you have made between “as soon as”, “always when” and “because”. Let me try to explain “because” as I understand it. Take a moment in time t1. (Actually...
View ArticleLessons from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alan Turing’s Debate on Mathematical...
This is the first in a series of posts, outlining what I consider to be, especially interesting sections of philosophical texts. It is important to note, as Kripke does in his treatment of...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Objectivity, Subjectivity and Interpretation (1)
This was a recent Quora question and it keeps puzzling me. Is reality subjective or objective? If it is subjective is every interpretation of it correct? It is not that difficult to reject this...
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