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Can location be assigned to an entity, given a lack of length, depth, or width?
David Gudeman rightly points out that your entity is called a point. A point by definition has no extension. How that is possible is that Euclidean space is concerned with having dimensions that are ...
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Is it possible for words to have a meaning other than how they are used?
Meanings of words are attributed to them by humans. One consequence is that you can never be sure whether the meaning of a word intended by the person who utters or writes it is the same as the ...
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Can location be assigned to an entity, given a lack of length, depth, or width?
Judging by your response to JD's excellent answer, what you seem to be asking is whether it makes any sense to talk about an unreal object having a location. I think the answer is generally no, it ...
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Can we reduce Wittgenstein's claims of human language being limited by some actual propositions about the limits of language?
Can we reduce Wittgenstein's claims of human language being limited by some actual propositions about the limits of language?
I'm not sure what you mean by reduce, but we can exemplify:
Language can ...
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Can we reduce Wittgenstein's claims of human language being limited by some actual propositions about the limits of language?
All I know is Wittgenstein's claim that meaning is use; phrased differently, words lack an essence.
Since philosophy is predicated on extracting the form/essence of words, Wittgenstein "...
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Can we reduce Wittgenstein's claims of human language being limited by some actual propositions about the limits of language?
Wittgenstein speaks of "hinge propositions" in this connection:
That is to say, the questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, ...
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Going against the limits of language
You may be looking for section 119 of Philosophical Investigations:-
The results of philosophy are the discovery of some piece of plain
nonsense and the bumps that the understanding has got by ...
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On the linguistics of math affected by freewill?
If we take intuitionism as the paradigmatic example of a philosophy of mathematics in which free will plays a constructive role, via the free choice sequences unfolded by Freely Creating Mathematical ...
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Is it possible for words to have a meaning other than how they are used?
Every word at some point had to acquire its current meanings. But the question is which came first? Did meaning come first and then we apply a word to it so we can refer to the meaning. Or did we just ...
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Can location be assigned to an entity, given a lack of length, depth, or width?
In a three-dimensional world, location is defined as a point that is represented by 3 numbers; one for each dimension; ex. height, depth, and width. So, if an entity does not have height, depth, and ...
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How do we describe the objects or systems like an "organic meal"?
I looked at WP's article on properties and the SEP's article on properties and either without any luck. In the IEP's article on properties we seem to come close with 'indiscriminantly necessary ...
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Does natural language like English make more assumption about logic than mathematics?
Languages, natural like English or French, or subject to specification like the mathematical language or formal logic itself, do not make any assumption, and this for the obvious reason that ...
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Can any statement at all be logically impossible given that it depends on its meaning?
Let's start with the concepts of true and false, before moving on to possible and impossible. If we take the sentence, "Sometimes it rains in London", we may say that in the ordinary meaning ...
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Can any statement at all be logically impossible given that it depends on its meaning?
When considering "a square triangle" one should take these words to have their current commonly-understood meanings, based on the premise that we're interested in analysing the underlying ...
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Can any statement at all be logically impossible given that it depends on its meaning?
The obvious answer to your question is that the logical possibility or impossibility of an unambiguous statement can be decided on the current definition of its constituent terms. Given that we ...
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How would a logician define the phrase "all other things being the same"?
This may or may not be helpful...
It's easy, if you are talking about the logic used in digital computation. This is because in that realm, there exists something called a don't care condition where ...
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How would a logician define the phrase "all other things being the same"?
∃y∃z∀x (x = y OR x = z OR x ∈ A) SUCH THAT (y AND A) IMPLIES z and (NOT y AND A) implies NOT Z.
x, y, and z are propositions about the object of discussion, and the universe of discourse is all ...
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Can we reduce Wittgenstein's claims of human language being limited by some actual propositions about the limits of language?
Clearly it is possible to define some of the limitations of language.
It might be possible to define in a complete way what falls within the scope of language.
It is not possible to define in a ...
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