[lit-ideas] Wittgenstein on Ostension
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:43:35 EDT
Was: 'blow _this_'
In a message dated 4/6/2004 5:46:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
By the
logic of the TLP it would thus appear that 'Blew here' was an elem. prop.,
admittedly of a possibly logically retrospective kind.
One problem with Wittgenstein was 'ostension', though: things that can be
_shown_ but not told (W, TLP 7). Ostension, for Wittgenstein, is ineffable, and
deictic.
I submit the 'here' in 'blow here' is ostensive, deictic and ineffable --
hardly 'elementary' if you ax me.
Cheers,
JL
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