[lit-ideas] Re: Wittgenstein the C-ionist*
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:44:44 +0100 (BST)
Hope to get back to this, though so far I find the answers quite
unsatisfactory.
> Let me ask Donal for the second or third time where in the later writings
> he
> finds Wittgenstein talking about 'vacuous concepts,' or anything that could
> be
> construed as a rough synonym of that expression--except by way of arguing
> _against_ Frege's notion that concepts without sharp boundaries were
> concepts in
> name only.
Eh..I did suggest saying something 'meant nothing' etc. could reasonably be
viewed as a synonym for 'concepts deployed vacuously'.
> Let me ask too for a single example anywhere, of 'an unsayable rule.'
But this is like asking 'What then is the _colour_ of the invisible rabbit?'
and when none is given concluding - 'Ah, see - _there is_ no invisible
rabbit!'
Shame on you!
Donal
Tending to his tootsie,
England
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