[lit-ideas] Re: Wittgenstein the C-ionist*
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 08 Apr 2004 13:28:41 PDT
Dear Donal,
You 'find the evidence unsatisfactory. Right. There's no _evidence_ that you
even understood the evidence. Look at it in light of your rebarbative expression
'criterion philosopher.' You are aparently willing to let everyone else examine
the texts--and copy them out for you--while you sit back and toss out one-liners
from Popper, without giving these any context and without motivating them in any
way.
>But this is like asking 'What then is the _colour_ of the invisible rabbit?'
and when none is given concluding - 'Ah, see - _there is_ no invisible
rabbit!'<
Bullshit. You keep talking of 'unsayable rules' in the later writings. You don't
have to articulate the rule: you just have to show _one_ instance where such a
notion is employed. This is not a bloody debate in which you get points for
being clever. If you want to discuss the issues _you've_ raised, discuss them.
If not, this discussion is at an end.
Richard Henninge and I have perhaps wasted too much time on your fictional
Wittgenstein already.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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