On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:34 AM, brendan downs <downs_brendan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > For Wittgenstein, thought is inevitably tied to language, which is inherently > social.Part of Wittgenstein's credo is captured in the following > proclamation: "An 'inner process' stands in need of outward criteria. And > Wittgenstein explicitly criticizes so-called conceivability arguments. > Is it possible to conceive Wittgensteins Beetle with this criteria. I.e. with > this criteria it is impossible to conceive something that is in a box called > a beetle that is different to a what you have in your box called a beetle. > > Brendan The words "credo" and "proclamation" jump out as non-Wittgensteinian in flavor. The easy on-ramp to the later Wittgenstein is via the dismantling of nominalism as a public space philosophy i.e. "this is that statue" is an operation, not a jab with some pointer. Language is not a jabber (pointer). This is the first insight or noble truth of the later corpus. Only when you've broken the back of nominalism completely will you be ready for the so-called inner landscape (a fine metaphor, reminds me of Italy, of Fodor ($5 a day is quite inexpensive)). Kirby WEB VIEW: http://tinyurl.com/ku7ga4 TODAY: http://alturl.com/whcf 3 DAYS: http://alturl.com/d9vz 1 WEEK: http://alturl.com/yeza GOOGLE: http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs YAHOO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ FREELIST: //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009