How To Use Wittgenstein In A Sentence
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Again, as Russell puts it: "The totalities concerning which Mr. Wittgenstein holds that it is impossible to speak logically are nevertheless thought by him to exist..." p.
The Self, Art, and Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein famously insisted at the end of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record.
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To keep the structure of the argument clearly in view Wittgenstein uses a system of decimal numbering.
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The title declares her debt to, and discourse with, Wittgenstein, the linguistic philosopher whose "notion of language games," she wrote, "suggests that basically what we do with our words is what we do with our experience of living.
Great Regulars: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, (1947-1975)
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Though commentators and critics do not agree as to whether the later Wittgenstein is still a finitist and whether, if he is, his finitism is as radical as his intermediate rejection of unbounded mathematical quantification (Maddy 1986, 300-301, 310), the overwhelming evidence indicates that the later Wittgenstein still rejects the actual infinite
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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From this despairing state Wittgenstein was rescued by two developments.
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First, despite what Wittgenstein said, etymology is not destiny*.
2009 November « Motivated Grammar
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Wittgenstein was a whizzkid who wanted to be an aviator and ended up teaching philosophy at Cambridge from a green deck chair.
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Wittgenstein's aesthetics is a Ethical one, including axiological meaning and absolute happiness of transcendental meaning.
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It finds its theoretical origin mainly in Ludwig Wittgenstein's "play metaphor" and "family-similarity.
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The first, and perhaps most definitive, indication that the later Wittgenstein maintains his finitism is his continued and consistent insistence that irrational numbers are rules for constructing finite expansions, not infinite mathematical extensions.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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(Berkeley 1975), ambiguity (Wittgenstein 1953) and non-compositionality
Mental Representation
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Wittgenstein sometimes appears to be committed to cognitive relativism as just described.
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Wittgenstein's two arguments about solipsism both dispense with it.
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There was a group that modeled themselves on Wittgenstein, which I thought was quite phony and pretentious.
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Against the "rational capacity", "conventionalist", Kantian and early Wittgensteinian views, other philosophers, especially radical empiricists and naturalists (not to speak of epistemological skeptics), have rejected the claim that a priori knowledge exists (hence by implication also the claim that analytic propositions exist), and they have proposed instead that there is only an illusion of apriority.
Logical Truth
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The duck/ rabbit is Wittgenstein's answer to the Problem of Universals (Plato) ie Does something have an intrinsic essence?
BEHINDLINGS
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Like Hüsserl, Abel is "bracketing" the "real" world, and in Abel's "house," Sartre and Wittgenstein, perhaps, are peeking out of the window.
Wives and Philosophers
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Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, author of the Tractatus and plenty of other works wot have put grey hairs upon my head, lived a few miles up the road in Clifden.
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Wittgenstein's aesthetics is a Ethical one, including axiological meaning and absolute happiness of transcendental meaning.
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Anyway, this is what Wittgenstein says: It is misleading to talk of thinking as a mental activity.
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In his obituary, The Times recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.
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Surely there should be more interest in the teaching ability and methods of writers, rather than just the size of their backlist.wittgensteinsmonkey via EducationGuardian.co.ukWhat an indictment of his establishment that the principal of Cleethorpes academy distributes information on private educational support outside school instead of telling parents not to waste their money A message on headed notepaper, 10 May.
Education letters
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But Wittgenstein in fact believed that the most important thing, what he referred to as ‘the mystical,’ is merely unsayable, not that it doesn't exist at all.
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Wittgenstein was a whizzkid who wanted to be an aviator and ended up teaching philosophy at Cambridge from a green deck chair.
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In a powerful critique of the theological turn in French phenomenology, for example in the work of Jean-Luc Marion, Meillassoux shows how the flip side of correlationism is fideism, that is, the rather vague discourse on the numinous that one finds in many followers of Heidegger, but also - it should be added - in Wittgenstein's curious remarks about the mystical towards the end of the Tractatus.
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Such a view will not bear scrutiny either, for reasons to be discussed later; Wittgenstein indeed opens the Philosophical Investigations with a lengthy refutation of it.
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Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers.
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Wittgenstein sometimes appears to be committed to cognitive relativism as just described.
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One of these matters was mentioned in the preceding section in connection with Wittgenstein's transitional period.
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This is related to Wittgenstein's distinction between solvable vs. "dissolvable" problems (or problem/questions).
You can't begin yourself away from what you're already doing.
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Here, he attended lectures by such illuminati as Stanley Cavell (on Wittgenstein) and John Rawls (the theory justice).
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The kind of indeterminacy that Wittgenstein has in mind at 3.24 is supposed to serve as a sign of further analysability.
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
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Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches.
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As we shall see in Section 3.4, the later Wittgenstein analyzes Cantor's diagonal and claims of non-denumerability in some detail.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Englemann's work has quite clearly and unequivocally brought out the nature of Wittgenstein's well-known protestations against such a bowdlerization of his thoughts as that of Russell in his introductory essay to the Tractatus.
Wittgenstein's Strategy
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Wittgenstein impressed this fact on the philosophical consciousness of the century with his critique of the private language argument.
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The duck/ rabbit is Wittgenstein's answer to the Problem of Universals (Plato) ie Does something have an intrinsic essence?
BEHINDLINGS
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On Wittgenstein's intermediate finitism, an expression quantifying over an infinite domain is never a meaningful proposition, not even when we have proved, for instance, that a particular number n has a particular property.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Twenty years later, the PCI now only a memory, Asor Rosa would compose a melancholy balance sheet of the Italian left, to which he and Tronti have remained in their own fashion faithful, while Cacciari today is an ornament of the right of the Democratic Party, combining - not unfittingly for an admirer of Wittgenstein - mysticism and technicism in a politics otherwise much like that of New Labour.
London Review of Books
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This might also be called a subtractive model, and Wittgenstein captures this perfectly with a question:
Wittgenstein's Aesthetics
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See Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, 2: 221-9 and passim, especially his comments on mathematics.
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As with his intermediate views on genuine irrationals and the Multiplicative Axiom, Wittgenstein here looks at the diagonal proof of the non-denumerability of “the set of transcendental numbers” as one that shows only that transcendental numbers cannot be recursively enumerated.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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In his core criticism of set theory, however, the later Wittgenstein denies this, saying that the diagonal proof does not prove non-denumerability, for “[i] t means nothing to say: “Therefore the X numbers are not denumerable” (RFM II, §10).
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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The ambivalence stems from Wittgenstein's admiration of Freud combined with his staunch condemnation of psychoanalytic theory.
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Wittgenstein's criticism of non-denumerability is primarily implicit during the middle period.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Goethe, the author of Faust and many other diverse works, was a major force; his work influenced philosophers such as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cassirer, Jung and Wittgenstein.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Spiritual Living: Why We Need Empathic Science
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For Wittgenstein, by contrast, the analysis shows that the assertor never was ontologically committed to the complex [aRb] by an utterance of “[aRb] exists.”
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
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The philosophy of Wittgenstein did not destroy the faith - it destroyed certain methods of nineteenth-century Idealist argument.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most important since Immanuel Kant.
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In his characteristically overgenerous way, Russell attributed his ideas to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who had been his pupil for a short time at Cambridge before the war.
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Having said what meaning and understanding are not, Wittgenstein proceeds to give a positive account of what they are.
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I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality.
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The logical atomism discussed in this article is the major philosophical ideology of Bertrand Russell after the year of 1899 and of Ludwig Wittgenstein's early stage.
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One way of understanding (Hyslop, 1995, chapter 8) what has been called the attitudinal approach to other minds (Wittgenstein, 1953, p. 178) is to see it as a variant of the criterial solution; but going beyond other uses of criteria in insisting that our conception of other human figures is that they are souls, have experiences.
Other Minds
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Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers.
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Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of mind.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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This book offers a distillation of Wittgenstein's thought in a mere fifty pages.
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For the meaning of the word, just as Wittgenstein wanted us to believe (in order that we might be undeceived about how our words work), lies in its use in the language.
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Whether correct or not, Kant's suggestion has provided the cornerstone of many subsequent philosophies of the self, from that of Schopenhauer to those of Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.
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Wittgenstein famously admonished us not to mistake the map for the territory.
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Wittgenstein did nothing to soften the difficulties, even discouraging his own students from attending Waismann's lectures.
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Influenced by both Anglo-Saxon and German philosophical tradition, Wittgenstein strove to find a refuge for 'Mystical Field ' through the method of language analysis in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
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Anyway, this is what Wittgenstein says: It is misleading to talk of thinking as a mental activity.
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For example, a discussion of Wittgenstein seems to be present in order to show that Wittgenstein's social ontology is founded on intersubjective practices rather than objective structures.
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Though commentators and critics do not agree as to whether the later Wittgenstein is still a finitist and whether, if he is, his finitism is as radical as his intermediate rejection of unbounded mathematical quantification (Maddy 1986, 300-301, 310), the overwhelming evidence indicates that the later Wittgenstein still rejects the actual infinite
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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‘Well, the evening began at the gentleman's club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.’
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She believed that it was Wittgenstein's lectures, for example, that freed her from the trap of phenomenalism
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
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The duck/ rabbit is Wittgenstein's answer to the Problem of Universals (Plato) ie Does something have an intrinsic essence?
BEHINDLINGS
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But what I take Wittgenstein to be suggesting is: Take the label analogy seriously; and then you'll see how little of language is like that.
"The feminist movement has a right to define what constitutes being a member, and I'm not going to appropriate their label if it bothers them..."
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Against the "rational capacity", "conventionalist", Kantian and early Wittgensteinian views, other philosophers, especially radical empiricists and naturalists (not to speak of epistemological skeptics), have rejected the claim that a priori knowledge exists (hence by implication also the claim that analytic propositions exist), and they have proposed instead that there is only an illusion of apriority.
Logical Truth
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A second strong indication that the later Wittgenstein maintains his finitism is his continued and consistent treatment of
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Wittgenstein admired Freud for developing a way of speaking that rendered expressible - and held the potential to clarify - problems, conflicts, desires, and emotional states.
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Such sketches are sprinkled throughout the memoirs, often interspersed with pithy, epigrammatic reflections on Brecht, Wittgenstein and Oscar Wilde and asides on subjects such as the film cliché or the comic jest.
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Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers.
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After the award of his doctorate, Wittgenstein was appointed a lecturer at Cambridge and he was made a fellow of Trinity College.
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This book offers a distillation of Wittgenstein's thought in a mere fifty pages.
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Though Cantor's diagonal is not a proof of non-denumerability, when it is expressed in a constructive manner, as Wittgenstein himself expresses it at (RFM II,
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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They are not irrational numbers according to Wittgenstein's criteria, which define, Wittgenstein interestingly asserts, “precisely what has been meant or looked for under the name ˜irrational number™” (PR §191).
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning.
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
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Thus Peano, like Church but unlike Wittgenstein, saw that the definition of the numbers as iterators gives for free the representability of a number of functions obtained by iteration.
Recursive Functions
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In a kind of pre-echo of Kant and Wittgenstein, Nicolas of Cusa argued that wisdom consists in an awareness of the limits of one's knowledge.
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(LFM 103), we will find, Wittgenstein expects, that set theory is uninteresting (e.g., that the non-enumerability of “the reals” is uninteresting and useless) and that our entire interest in it lies in the ˜charm™ of the mistaken prose interpretation of its proofs (LFM 16).
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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The logical atomism discussed in this article is the major philosophical ideology of Bertrand Russell after the year of 1899 and of Ludwig Wittgenstein's early stage.
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As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it.
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There was a group that modeled themselves on Wittgenstein, which I thought was quite phony and pretentious.
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On Wittgenstein's intermediate finitism, an expression quantifying over an infinite domain is never a meaningful proposition, not even when we have proved, for instance, that a particular number n has a particular property.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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In 1929 Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge where he submitted the Tractatus as his doctoral thesis.
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I've never been fully convinced by the Wittgenstein comparison as far as grasping reality goes, since Wittgenstein, for at least large portions of his life, seemed to be pretty big on free-floating externals.
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Call me dim but I would have thought that there wasn't too much to learning how to master this silence lark; it's not like studying Wittgenstein, even for people who wear trainers.