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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
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Re-reading the Tractatus confirms what I remember of it: Lots of impressive jewels among a sea of nonsense. You can see lots of principles of first and second-order logic, along with semantic networks in it, mixed with aphorisms that don't make much sense at all (at least to me).
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When writing, I always think it’s important to acknowledge the fact that thoughts too obey the law of gravity. It’s sincerely easy to write ideas down without end, but that very flow will most likely not apply to the person that is going to be reading your work. Thoughts flow easy from head on to paper, but it’s different when it’s from paper to head.
Wittgenstein proposes some ground-breaking ideas and ways of thinking and viewing our use of language - as well as its limitations - and how logic is evidently applied. But man, he has an unbelievably terrible way of expressing them. He spends a considerable amount of time on the same topic conducting endless examples I guess in the hope of ensuring you understand him…but he just loses you more. I didn’t mind him resorting to mathematics, I just wished he knew when it was enough, but I get it, he’s a mathematician. His writing has me completely convinced that Hegel is more comprehensible in comparison. Overall I’m not hating his ideas, I’m just really not in tune with how he writes. I’ve yet to meet philosophers that write and flow better than Schopenhauer and Sartre, and if we’re considering “anti-philosophers” then I’d have Cioran. But then again, Wittgenstein would hate to be called a philosopher.
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Extremamente proveitoso para o exercício mental utópico de uma linguagem estritamente lógica e radical. Para quem não tem interesse em tarefas de pensamento extremos da linguagem, a avaliação é uma estrela. O livro "da Certeza" é muito mais proveitoso.
"You don't know what a dog that has been run over feels like" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, after asking his friend how she was doing, and she replied that she felt like a "run over dog"
This quote from Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit sums up Wittgenstein pretty well.
But seriously, there is a reason this is considered the greatest philosophical work of the 21st century. While I won't pretend to have understood all of it, his penetrating criticism of philosophy in its traditional form is a true work of art.
This quote from Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit sums up Wittgenstein pretty well.
But seriously, there is a reason this is considered the greatest philosophical work of the 21st century. While I won't pretend to have understood all of it, his penetrating criticism of philosophy in its traditional form is a true work of art.
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Likely my third reading but the first time straight through. Foundational and simultaneously destructive. Here’s to architects being paroled and the fall of divine spheres.
Wonderful day at a sheep farm in Northern Michigan.
Wonderful day at a sheep farm in Northern Michigan.