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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
I've always been interested in linguistics and the meaning of words beyond the grammar and vocabulary. Wittgenstein is one of the people whose ramblings make some sort of twisted sense to me, even if they could be more elegant than what he writes here. There's some touch of desperation as he tries to communicate that we can't really communicate. I'll come back and reread this one day, for sure.
Some intriguing ideas here about meaning & signs in language and thought, particularly the Blue book, though I wanted to like these books more than I did. Wittgenstein's thesis appears to be that language is a merely set of signs interwoven with our activity in the world, the meanings of which can only be defined by their use within the context and various associations of a language. Then he beats the premise to death with dozens of language games to explore the problems with language as a set of representative signs. Definitely worth a read but I can't help but continue to think a number of these insights were explored with more significance by Wittgenstein's contemporary, Heidegger.
Ik heb alleen het Blue Book gelezen, maar het is briljant. Onnavolgbaar, maar briljant.
Update 26-11-2019:
Inmiddels ook het Brown Book gelezen. Mijn mening is niet veranderd.
Update 26-11-2019:
Inmiddels ook het Brown Book gelezen. Mijn mening is niet veranderd.
I won't pretend to understand everything about Wittgenstein (add to that the fact that this is my bedside read, meaning that I might have failed to grasp a lot especially in the moments that I fall asleep), but I guess this is a good start for one who wants to understand the transition from early to late Wittgenstein.