[Wittrs] Re: Language games, html, and the Varieties of Nonsense

  • From: "walto" <walterhorn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:42:11 -0000

Main differences from Carnap:

1) Carnap had a very solid understanding about what philosophy was and how it 
worked, before saying it was largely nonsense.

2) Carnap had some humility, and did not suggest that people he disagreed with 
were either retarded or insane or both or they would see that he was correct.

3) Carnap was brilliant.


Other than that, many similarities.

W

--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@...> wrote:
>
> (re: Stuart)
> 
> ... here is what I think the issue has become reduced to. There are things 
> people do "in development." Imagine a Karate school. The level-1 hackers 
> learn 
> only skills. They do this by playing against false opponents: "Chop the 
> stick." 
> "Kick the pad." At a later stage of development, the stick & pad are no 
> longer 
> seen as "opponents." One has to wield a different sort of skilty in a much 
> different realm. Is it good for the kids to learn karate by chopping sticks 
> and 
> kicking pads? Surely it is. 
>

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