[lit-ideas] Re: BaPoCo: Donal's Poultry Contest
- From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:59:01 +0700
Donal McEvoy wrote:
".... for clearly whatever 'everything is the case' lacks any specificity"
Perhaps it has the specificity required for the subject matter? As the
Philosopher writes:
"Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the
subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike
in all discussions..."
The original quote from Wittgenstein's Tractatus:
"The world is everything that is the case."
If the subject-matter is 'the world', then the appropriate degree of
specificity might be less specific than if the subject-matter were
some thing in the world.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Indonesia
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