Re:Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire
by goatlover on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:19AM
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I've seen that disagreement all the time online with philosophical discussions where opposing sides use different definitions and refuse to accept the same terminology. I wonder though if professional philosophers are more careful and exact. My interpretation of most online philosophical argument is that semantic disputes are somewhat intentional, because people do not want to give the other side any ground to stand on. Agreeing to terms could mean the arguments based on those terms have some merit.
In this case it comes to something also very common in philosophy, discussions that can be questioned as “are we discussing terms or philosophy or both at the same time?” and often the case is “both” making it very hard to have a philosophical discussion when opposing sides disagree both on the terminology and the philosophy and don’t separate the two disagreements very well.