[lit-ideas] Re: Philosophical Investigations online - amplification re PI
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:32:25 -0700
I wrote
I thank Donal for setting all this out. I should say straight off that
I disagree with most of what he says about the Investigations,
essentially because I don't believe there is a notion of, a contrast
between, saying and showing of the sort he sees in it.
Donal wrote in reply
Then _what_ sort? (If no sort, this should be said.)
He is, I think, misreading a straightforward English sentence, which I'd
dipped in a principle of charity. It's surely clear that I disagree
with what he says about there being a say/show distinction in the
Investigations, of the sort he has set forth earlier: whether there are
other sorts of saying and showing, clearly, and not amorphously, present
in the Investigations, is another matter.
I have no obligation, morally or philosophically, to illuminate these
others, should there be any, (although if we can get past the
preliminaries before October I'd like to talk about what some might see
as instance of post-Tractatus saying and showing).
As for my needing to say _what_ sort of contrast between saying/showing
there is in the Investigations, if it isn't, on my view, Donal's, this
seems a bit like saying that if I don't believe there a creature in Loch
Ness, of the sort depicted in some publication of those who believe
there is, I'm somehow obligated to say what kind of creature, or
creatures there _are_ in it.
More simply. Donal and others claim there's a certain kind of say/show
distinction in the Investigations (and it's a big deal). I don't believe
there is _that_ kind of say/show distinction there. So far, the
other kinds (?) of say/show distinction there may be remains unexplored.
Robert Paul
[as far as I got this evening]
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