All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

belfalas wrote: post #3

"If you agree that there is a hand, we will grant you all the rest..." From the tiny book "On Certainty" by Wittgenstein. Really interesting and thought-provoking.

More context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_one_hand

TL;DR:

Descartes (and others): We can't know for certain that the external world exists.

GE Moore: "Here is one hand, and here is another. There are at least two external objects in the world."

Wittgenstein was pointing out that this doesn't address any of the actual claims. (I think "agree" is a confusing word to use in the translation. "Know" would work better.)

EDIT: I'd also like to throw this Moorean SMBC sub-comic because I love it and it's relevant: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100512after.gif -- from https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1879

Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by pwdisswordfish9 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 8:09 PM UTC

augustzf wrote: post #5

I clicked because I read "all of Wolfenstein is now public domain". How embarrassing.

Wittgenstein: Enemy Territory would make for a great game, actually.

Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by bediger4000 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 8:12 PM UTC

Do we know what Wittgenstein himself would have thought of this? Did he have opinions on "intellectual property" regimes?

Did the "intellectual property" regime contemporaneous with him writing encourage or discourage his output?

I mean, there's some thought that Giuseppe Verdi reduced his output when copyright was introduced: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1336802

Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by johnisgood » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

lkbm wrote: post #7

belfalas wrote: post #3

"If you agree that there is a hand, we will grant you all the rest..." From the tiny book "On Certainty" by Wittgenstein. Really interesting and thought-provoking.

More context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_one_hand TL;DR: Descartes (and others): We can't know for certain that the external world exists. GE Moore: "Here is one hand, and here is another. There are at least two external objects in the world." Wittgenstein was pointing out that this doesn't address any of the actual claims. (I think "agree" is a confusing word to use in the translation. "Know" would work b…

  Here is one hand,
  And here is another.
  There are at least two external objects in the world.
  Therefore, an external world exists.

As if there would not be hands in a simulated world!