Wittgenstein: Philosophical discussion in Cambridge - Part 1

A scene from Derek Jarman's film 'Wittgenstein' (1989) upon the thought behind a word or a sentence like "This is a very pleasant pineapple."

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• linguistics
• wittgenstein
• russell
• philosophie
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[dejkola]

@Thorheld

and some other people are disappointed that you are from Cambridge, but you dont understand the meaning of symbolism :)

[Ausermac]

"Oh dear, he can't bear disagreement, can he?" LOL philosopher with an attitude! ^^

[bvssvni]

@igotkiwi Like the rules in chess does not explicitly command you to win, but humans will try to win or else there is no point playing. The world has a lot of physics laws, but none of them commands you to be good or find truth, the only reason humans seek for it is that they think it should be. Perhaps he means something like that.

[bobdy9988]

I understand what Wittgenstein is saying, but I don't know how I understand it :/

He was a genius

[1awareness]

@1awareness Amun-DHs

[1awareness]

Knowing that Judas was reflecting upon something that was exalted, Jesus said to him,

“Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is

possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal. [36] For someone else will

replace you, in order that the twelve [disciples] may again come to completion with their

god.”

Judas said to him, “When will you tell me these things, and [when] will the great day

of light dawn for the generation?”

(gospel of judaz)

[igotkiwi]

I listened to a conference (by Marc Angenot) on this subject. I disagree so very much. One of the first things you learn in philosophy is to define the terms you use. True, misunderstandings happen, but this is a ridiculous assumption to reject every philosophical argument on this ground. If Hume, NIetszche, Kant and any other philosopher had such different views, was it just because they defined justice and good differently or because they employed different arguments in their search of truth?

[Franticalmagic]

@PhilosophyScience Bang on Bro. :)

[PhilosophyScience]

@Franticalmagic: The distinction between the two is part of the demacration problem in philosophy of science. "deciding on where to search for empirical findings", I think here you mean empirical data.

[willou901]

I love W.

[Franticalmagic]

@PhilosophyScience Though you are right to an extent, the key distinction between the two is the priority of empiricism. While philosophy works with empirical findings as a source of information, science is concerned primarily with the gathering of empirical data.

However the act of interpreting empirical findings into a workable theory and deciding on where to search for empirical findings in AND HOW TO DO SO is an act of conceptual analysis.

[enunna]

So Wittgenstein's thesis is that philosophers are literally a bunch of wankers?