Re: [Wittrs] [Serious Phil] Wittgenstein, Kripke and Names
- From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:11:15 -0400
In my line of work, "names" has a specific meaning. We have
namespaces, which may be imported. Names are "of objects". It's a
mechanized logic that I'm talking about, Python, named for Monty
Python.
Outside of such specific (special case) language games, the word
"name" need have no fixed meaning. It wanders about, just like
"logic" and "logician" does.
Since the advent of computer science and the computer languages, I
would say the legacy of Frege-type logic is clear: all that symbolic
logic was helping humans get ready for their next adventures in
computational thinking (aka "logic").
The "logic" of the analytic philosophers (so-called "first order" and
"higher order") is, in contrast, a relative dead end in my view and of
no particular utility any longer.
I would not consider analytic philosophers to be especially well
versed in logic as a group. They haven't kept up to date and their
thinking. Computer science has inherited the mantle of useful logic
and has few debts to contemporary philosophers.
On the other hand, the ideas of "namespace" and "language games" are
coming together I think.
Whether it's worth sharing this news with analytic philosophers is
debatable. That's a branch of human learning that we probably don't
need to keep on life support. Wittgenstein helps us pull the plug on
that stuff.
Kirby
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