Come on, Wittgenstein was confused. Consider
Are there causal laws? Would you care to specify who is bewitching what? In
particular (oh some one called David Hume) observed centuries ago that there's
nothing to observe. Is he equally bewitched? By what?
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Not at all. W was making a serious point about the kind of inquiry philosophy
is. One of its aims is to clarify the conditions and nature of the
knowledge-claims and judgements we make, and expose nonsense we fall prey to in
virtue of bewitchment by language. (For a very good and detailed articulation
of the philosophical enterprise in the spirit if not the letter of W, vide
*Making it explicit* by Robert Brandom. For a less technical account, see his
*On doing and saying*.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>:
This is "philosophy for idiots"
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On 22 May 2015, at 17:56, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect that 'here is my hand' would suggest, in ordinary
language, an offer of a handshake - say between two people who had
some disagreement before. I can't think of many situations in which
'here is a hand' would be used as an ontological claim, in ordinary
language. (Outside of the philosophy department at Cambridge.)
Cf.: “I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again
and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us.
Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow
isn’t insane.
We are only doing philosophy.'�
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, ON CERTAINTY
Chris Bruce
in Kiel,
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