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Monday, October 18, 2010
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Being a pretentious ass, I've been reading and thinking about Wittgenstein recently. Other than pretentiousness there are a couple of reasons for this. First, he's Phil's hero and I want to be able to argue with him and secondly its because Wittgenstein is widely regarded as a super great philosopher but as far as I can tell his work hasn't much affected what philosophers do even though he claimed twice to have ended philosophy (whatever he meant by that).
He's also just about the only philosopher I know of who gets spoken of as not merely great but as a genius like prodigy. People simply fall over themselves to say so, but then why aren't they all Wittgenstinian's? It doesn't make sense to me.
I had a different point when I started this post but I think its too late to squash it in. Another post then!
Just for the novelty value I'll post this now.
He's also just about the only philosopher I know of who gets spoken of as not merely great but as a genius like prodigy. People simply fall over themselves to say so, but then why aren't they all Wittgenstinian's? It doesn't make sense to me.
I had a different point when I started this post but I think its too late to squash it in. Another post then!
Just for the novelty value I'll post this now.
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