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4. I don't know whether this adquately represents Wittgenstein's thought, but

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 08:51 AM

Apr 2014

...it makes sense, is clearly explained, and convinces me that I could try to read LW myself. After all, I got through 'Middlemarch" one summer, and I have run into people who are convinced of LW's genius.

But why did LW "never state explicitly" what his conclusions were?

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Wittgenstein's PI in 5 minutes [View all] Junkdrawer Apr 2014 OP

K&R...very well done alcibiades_mystery Apr 2014 #1

Took 2 days to pound out... Junkdrawer Apr 2014 #2

Thanks, I'm going to go back and read Wittgenstein again htuttle Apr 2014 #3

I don't know whether this adquately represents Wittgenstein's thought, but planetc Apr 2014 #4

Frankly, I think conclusions like that turn things so up-side-down... Junkdrawer Apr 2014 #5

PS: I had a friend who did computer work for CMU's Cognitive Psych dept. ... Junkdrawer Apr 2014 #6

PPS. He had already published the Tractatus... Junkdrawer Apr 2014 #7

K&R. (nt) scarletwoman Apr 2014 #8