This is a linkpost for an essay I wrote on substack. Links lead to other essays and articles on substack and elsewhere, so don't click these if you don't want to be directed away from lesswrong. Any and all critique and feedback is appreciated. There are some terms I use...
This is a linkpost for an essay I wrote about Wittgenstein and the private language argument on substack. Links lead to other essays on substack, so don't click these if you don't want to be directed there. > ...the difficult thing here is not to dig down to the ground;...
This is a linkpost for an essay I wrote on substack. Links lead to other essays and articles on substack and elsewhere, so don't click these if you don't want to be directed away from lesswrong. Any and all critique and feedback is appreciated. There are some terms I use in this post that I provide a (vague) definition for here at the outset (I have also linked to the essays where these were first used):
Particularism - The dominant world view in industrialized/"Western” culture, founded on reductionism, materialism/physicalism and realism.
The Epistemic - “By the epistemic I will mean all discourse, language, mathematics and science, anything and all that we order and structure,... (read 4937 more words →)
This is a linkpost for an essay I wrote about Wittgenstein and the private language argument on substack. Links lead to other essays on substack, so don't click these if you don't want to be directed there.
...the difficult thing here is not to dig down to the ground; no, it is to recognize the ground that lies before us as the ground. For the ground keeps on giving us the illusory image of a greater depth, and when we seek to reach this, we keep on finding ourselves on the old level. Our disease is one of wanting to explain.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics §VI.31
... (read 4064 more words →)Describing phenomena by means