RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 25, 2018 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2018 at 1:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Starting with definitions first is only acknowledging our assumptions in any case..it doesn't ground anything in an incontrovertible truth unless a person can solve the inconclusive state of meaning theory.
A truth by tautology is not a truth of the universe but a truth of definitions..and even that issue hasn;t been settled. Yet another "point" of continuing to pursue philosophy. We do acknowledge this, when we speak about equivocations, for example..but we also understand that some equivocations are so subtle as to be unnoticed. There's always, at the very least and being incredibly generous...the outside chance that any meaning content of a statement x is in that set..and so, even tautologies are provisional.
A truth by tautology is not a truth of the universe but a truth of definitions..and even that issue hasn;t been settled. Yet another "point" of continuing to pursue philosophy. We do acknowledge this, when we speak about equivocations, for example..but we also understand that some equivocations are so subtle as to be unnoticed. There's always, at the very least and being incredibly generous...the outside chance that any meaning content of a statement x is in that set..and so, even tautologies are provisional.
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