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Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by asimovfan »

dlkf wrote: post #16

No book influenced my attitude toward philosophy more than Wittgenstein's Blue Book. Here are a couple gems: > The questions, "What is length?", "What is meaning?", "What is the number one?" etc., produce in us a mental cramp. We feel that we can't point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up against one of the great sources of philosophical bewilderment: we try to find a substan…

Might interest you. This idea is explored to the fullest the way i understand it. Śūnyatā - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81

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Post by bshepard »

"If we think of the world's future, we always mean the place it will get to if it keeps going as we see it going now and it doesn't occur to us that it is not going in a straight line but in a curve & that its direction is constantly changing." (Wittgenstein, from Culture and Value)

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Post by lsiebert »

I really appreciate Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance concepts, that things we group together may not be in fact grouped by a shared trait, but instead my consist of a bunch of different sets of overlapping traits, such that no one trait is common to all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance

Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by chrischapman »

jancsika wrote: post #53

Very strange-- it took me straight to the articles but I never logged in or even signed up. Also-- right-click Copy isn't suppressed and there's no email list modal popping up when I scroll. Did this site get hacked or something?

Nope. You probably just had JavaScript disabled (which would be the sensible thing to do). Or maybe they haven't got round to it yet and in a few weeks all of what you mention will be implemented along with 48 tracking cookies, 4MB of JavaScript downloads (of which only 16KB is ever used) and an incomprehensible cookie banner referencing 641 privacy policies which no one will ever read!

The things we do, eh? I wonder what Wittgenstein would have made of it all.

Re: All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Post by metanomicon »

asimovfan wrote: post #51
dlkf wrote: post #16

No book influenced my attitude toward philosophy more than Wittgenstein's Blue Book. Here are a couple gems: > The questions, "What is length?", "What is meaning?", "What is the number one?" etc., produce in us a mental cramp. We feel that we can't point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up against one of the great sources of philosophical bewilderment: we try to find a substan…

Might interest you. This idea is explored to the fullest the way i understand it. Śūnyatā - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81

Not so sure that's quite it. Having reflected on this a great deal over the years, I would say that many of Wittenstein's insights about language and life are more closely expressed as Tathata. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tath%C4%81t%C4%81]

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Post by jjgreen »

Wittgenstein in a lecture once asked his audience to imagine coming across a man who is saying “...5, 1, 4, 1, 3 — finished!”, and, when asked what he has been doing, replies that he has just finished reciting the complete decimal expansion of π backwards.

A. W. Moore, The Infinite, Routledge, 1990

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