Re: [Wittrs] As Analytic Turns
- From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:39:30 -0700 (PDT)
... and I think the important point is that people have more choices. If they
want to be in groups with different approaches, they can have more variety. If
all groups tried to be the same, it would be far worse.
You're right that we are boring sometimes. We're also a little quiet. But I
would take that any day over the kind of thing that goes on in Analytic. If we
had the same 7 people there, over here, doing the same thing they do in the
several groups they populate, it would just be ridiculous.
But if I do have one honest regret, it is that I've never had enough "horses"
in the group. I've never really had any Wittgenstein scholars in here. But at
least I am fairly proud of one thing. I enjoy the subject list in our archives.
If you look at the titles of the last 50 threads, they are pretty good for one
who is interested in Wittgenstein. And so, I think the news or magazine format
is better right now. If you want Wittgenstein news and developments, we have
it. And if you want to talk about it, we can have that too -- but not as blood
thirsts or endless telephone conversations between 3 people.
Regards and thanks.
Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
[spoiler]Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://tinyurl.com/3eatnrx
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----- Original Message -----
From: Han Geurdes <han.geurdes@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Wittrs] As Analytic Turns
Dear Sean,
I think your approach helps to keep wittrs alive. It is a bit dull every now
and then but you did mention two very good refrences to LW's work. I
especially like the reference to the annotated Tractatus. I must admit I
still do understand little of it but it keeps me busy thinking about what
Wittgenstein was trying to say. That is the fun of it.
Best,
Han
On 21 July 2011 03:43, kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hah, I don't read Analytic. Fun to hear about dogs though
> as I do quite a bit with dogs, e.g. in the "mechanized logic"
> class that I teach (Lesson 14, Project 1 for example:
> all about a Dog class, with attributes name and breed).
>
> I'm fine tuning a brand of linguistic turn philosophy that
> is especially skeptical of English, yet is written in English,
> or some say it is. Others claim there's a language
> called Amerish, and this is what the buckaneers are
> using for their treasure maps (geocached mail drops
> or whatever).
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-July/010407.html
>
> (scroll to end for Amerish reference, with link to poet
> Gene Fowler: "But the speakers of Amerish
>
> (American-English, circa 2050 or so) will think
>
> faster, want more subtle words...maybe.")
>
> Kirby
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