[MD] JTB

[Matt Kundert]

Hi Ian,

Ian said:
And it is not a matter of the "luxury" of pragmatic fuzziness Matt, it 
is a matter of which factors matter.

Matt:
The above is just an illustrative moment.  Like Steve, I guess I didn't 
understand the import of your addition to the discussion.  The above 
is the form of "not this, Matt, but this," but I'm not sure how I was 
belying the fact that "it is a matter of which factors matter."  It 
sounded to Steve and I that you were trying to tell us something 
about how you differentiate yourself from what we were saying, but 
our lack of success in furthering that line (as you told Steve, he was 
"making your points") suggests to me that I, at least, didn't 
understand how you were doing so.

I'd also note that you kind of charge thought-experiments as being 
mere "word-games," but I guess I find more value in them than you 
do.  Some lead you down rabbit-holes, but Stanley Cavell--a true 
blue Wittgensteinian--thought that working your way around a 
language-game, figuring out how and when you feel the need to 
say what, is a matter of figuring out what you really believe beneath 
the surface of what you unreflectively thought you believed.  
Thought experiments like Steve deployed is like the 
phenomenological investigation of language, and ipso facto the 
implication of belief.  I think it can often be a factor that matters, or 
at least bring the ones that do to the surface.

Matt

p.s.  I usually don't announce being gone, but since I'm involved in 
few conversations, including a renewed one with John, I thought I 
might.  Be back after the New Years.