Tag: Category mistakes

• May 17, 2014

  3 poor questions to ask about ‘the’ mind

  A Joke Father: Point to where my left foot is. Son [points down and to the left]: There! Father: That’s right. Now point to where my right hand is. Son [points upward and to the right]: There! Father: That’s right. Now point to where my heart is. Son [points to chest]: In there! Father: That’s right. Now…
• April 17, 2014

  ‘If the world is not fallen, then it is not in need of saving…’

  Here is an excerpt from a post-philosophical conversation note I wrote to one philosophical friend today. All of the assumptions below are typically made. My tacit suggestion is that they amount to what Gilbert Ryle famously terms ‘category mistakes.’ Of course, some things are problems; but, logically speaking, a human life cannot be a problem. It…