Since English isn’t Sound and like 90% of English words simply don’t have real definitions, I’m not sure I want to tangle with this guy’s work. It’s either going to be tenuous logic with an exploration in equivocation, or a baffling/impressive display of linguistics. Which was it?
I’ve heard German is bad too. Probably In the very same philosophy of logic class where I heard the name Wittgenstein and was told about his work but which I have completely failed to retain any memory of.
Philosophical Investigations is closer to the latter. (There’s a big difference between Late and Early Wittgenstein—basically two completely different authors)
There is also a fair bit of continuity between the two—he retains one of the main theses of his earlier work: that much of our confusion about so called ‘philosophical problems’ is caused by people abusing language.
Since English isn’t Sound and like 90% of English words simply don’t have real definitions, I’m not sure I want to tangle with this guy’s work. It’s either going to be tenuous logic with an exploration in equivocation, or a baffling/impressive display of linguistics. Which was it?
Well he did write it in German.
I’ve heard German is bad too. Probably In the very same philosophy of logic class where I heard the name Wittgenstein and was told about his work but which I have completely failed to retain any memory of.
Philosophical Investigations is closer to the latter. (There’s a big difference between Late and Early Wittgenstein—basically two completely different authors)
There is also a fair bit of continuity between the two—he retains one of the main theses of his earlier work: that much of our confusion about so called ‘philosophical problems’ is caused by people abusing language.