[lit-ideas] Re: The Order of Aurality

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:20:26 -0800

Donal says many interesting things but for now let me comment on one, no doubt minor, point.

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If this is right, we might ask a Wittgensteinian to flesh out some examples of such creatures (as we might ask the early Wittgenstein for an example of so-called 'simples'**).

Wittgenstein was once asked about the nature of the logically simple objects in the /Tractatus/. His answer was that he'd never given any thought to that; he had believed his job was finished when he'd shown that there must be such things (and that he now believed the whole enterprise had been misconceived).

Robert Paul

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