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A Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument

Posted by in consciousness, language, Philosophy

Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument appears in the Philosophical Investigations from around p.243 to p.315. For some good summaries/accounts on the argument or the Philosophical Investigations itself, scroll to the very bottom of this article. The so called private language argument is invoked a lot of discussions about language, particularly in trying to prove in some sense that all conscious thought (or even all of consciousness) reduces to language. The gist of the private language argument is attempting to show how all the ways language could be private do not actually work. Roughly speaking,…read more

May.23
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Physicalism is Meaningless

Posted by in Philosophy, Science

This article will explain the problem of the mind, from the context of modern theoretical physics, and why this is a problem for physicalism that makes physicalism meaningless (not necessarily false, just meaningless).  Then we will cover what Transcendental Idealism is and why this view is the more compatible frame of view on both the mind and the ‘physical’ universe. Theoretical Physics? Starting in the last century with Quantum Mechanics, there was a philosophical crisis in theoretical physics because of how the model and predictions do not seem compatible with our…read more

May.20
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What is this? (Welcome!)

Posted by in General

What is this? This is the first post at Objectness.com. This site is intended to be blog or placeholder for thoughts on philosophy, science, politics, ethics, and various other topics. Who am I? My name is Daniel Delos. I majored in Philosophy (BA) at George Mason University and since then, it has been a passionate hobby. As a long-term project, I have also been working on a book on philosophy focused around consciousness. In other news, I am an SEO by trade, my site and business is Rewind SEO, specializing in Google penalty analysis and recovery.

May.20
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