[lit-ideas] Wittgenstein's "senseless propositions"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:50:06 EST
And on understanding
We are analysing Wittgenstein:
"My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me
finally recognizes them as senseless".
McEvoy:
"I suggest his point of view, tenable or not, is more straightforwardly
understood without distinguishing propositions and the act of saying:- his
point of view is that in examining what gives a proposition 'sense', we find
that the correct criterion of sense does not satisfy its own strictures and
is, according to its own strictures, lacking 'sense' as a proposition.
(Yet he maintains it is nevertheless true a criterion)."
I see. Still, it was a good try!
A point can be made that a senseless proposition is no proposition (cfr.
"He propositioned", "he proposed").
----Etc.
Speranza
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