[lit-ideas] Re: Die Gegenstande bilden die Substanz der Welt. Darum konnen sie nicht zusammenges
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, cblists@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 14:52:02 -0230
Cher Chris,
Please don't leave. Our list would be all the worse for it. Just suck it up and
tolerate it. (Surely a universalizable maxim in this context :)
I am prepared to argue, against all comers, that this post is of sufficient
importance as to tolerate dual postings.
Alles gutes,
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting cblists@xxxxxxxx:
>
> It would be ungracious of me to leave the list - whatever the reasons
> (about which, see my postscript)- without offering something as a
> small token of my thanks and esteem.
>
> For those with German, I recommend as interesting Wendelin Schmidt-
> Dengler, Martin Huber, and Michael Huter, Hrsg. _Wittgenstein Und:
> Philosophie -> >- Literatur_ (Vienna: Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei,
> 1990).
>
> For an interesting (English-language) look at the Tractatus (and one
> that has helped me view the later Wittgenstein writings not so much as
> corrections of errors in the _Tractatus_ as attempts to clear up
> misunderstandings of that earlier work) see James Bogen,
> "Wittgenstein's _Tractatus_", in Stuart Shanker, ed. _Philosophy of
> Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century_ (Routledge
> History of Philosophy: Vol. IX - London and New York: Routledge, 1996).
>
> Chris Bruce
> Kiel, Germany
>
> P.S. I have no wish to reiterate my arguments for a limit to the
> number of postings to the list allowed per person per day, nor am i
> interested in rekindling this debate - it is clear to me that my
> position is not supported by the majority of list members. But I also
> have no interest in continuing as member of a community dedicated to
> discussion and debate in which discussion is dominated by one
> individual (when I checked my mail the other day, of the 34 new
> postings to the list 20 were from one person). Filtering, which some
> have suggested, is abhorrent to me; if I choose to be a member of a
> community I like to hear (and have the opportunity to respond to) what
> all the members are saying (and this is possible providing members
> subscribe to the simplest of what has now become almost universal
> understanding of 'list etiquette'). Collegiality - in the strictest
> sense of that term - is to me essential, and under current conditions
> on this list, impossible. But I see I am beginning to indulge in the
> very reiteration which I denied a wish to perform; simply put all this
> down to idiosyncrasy and oversensitivity on my part, if you like - and
> move on ....
>
> -CB
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