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Article #14407Re: True Philosophers and Thought
From: David Bernier
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:37
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:37
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foolsrushin wrote: > On 25 Apr, 00:22, Lester Zick<dontbot...@nowhere.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:12:22 -0700 (PDT), PD >> <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Obviously you've already taken a vow of consummate ignorance. Anyone >>>> can say anything publicly without making it true. >>> That's certainly correct. However, the point of using words in the >>> first place is not to establish the truth of the purported meaning of >>> those words, but to communicate. >> To communicate what? Science prefers truth. >> ~v~~ > > Contractual obligations, poems, plays, inductive infallibility? Can > the latter be communicated unambigously? Wittgenstein retreated to > language games, and rightly, Russell thought them silly. The topic of vagueness in language is studied by philosophers. It goes back at least to the Sororites' paradox about removing from a pile of sand one grain of sand at a time, thus ending up with something that isn't a pile of sand, and the realization that "pile of sand" is vague. It seems to me like the type of question that is never definitely settled. < http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/24-729Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm > David Bernier
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