[C] [Wittrs] Re: Wittgenstein and Theories
- From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:43:52 -0800 (PST)
Josh wrote: "And I now realize that my previous comments can be made more
concise, by asking what is it that makes therapy non-theoretical?"
... the meaning of the terms, and the behavior required of each. Here's a
better idea: if you said that certain of Wittgenstein's ideas -- e.g., meaning
is use -- amounted to "theories," but you admit that their
administration required something different (behaviorally), all you would have
done is caused a traffic accident in the language game. However, if you
alternatively said that these matters were "result-oriented theories" or that
they amounted to "theories of how to merge anthropology with philosophy" -- or,
as I said, were a sort of end-theory -- none of these statements would be
incorrect; they would simply be a different way of talking about it.
One could state the matter this way. Learning to catch grammar and "seeing"
conditions of assertability is the only true occupation home to philosophy. All
others have homes elsewhere (logic, mathematics, "debate," science, etc.). One
might charge that linguistics is home to what I say, but I think it is not.
Linguists don't do this at all. It is the only home philosophy has left in the
wake of Wittgenstein.
To the extent that philosophy is commonly taught as being started by Socrates
(knowing, of course, that there were pre-socratics), it was effectively ended
by Wittgenstein. That is, Wittgenstein showed what the answers consisted of,
and what techniques were required to silence the problems. The only reason
philosophy-the-social-club doesn't understand this is twofold. (A) It doesn't
have a Wittgenstein anymore (no one else can do it). And (B), it isn't good for
business.
Regards.
Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860
Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html
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