http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/ --Ludwig Wittgenstein]]> en-us 2005-07-06T20:24:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/024148.html "4.002 Man possesses the capacity of constructing languages, in which every sense can be expressed, without having an idea how and what each word means--just as one speaks without knowing how the single sounds are produced. Colloquial language is a... Investigations tiet0024 2005-07-06T20:24:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/022640.html Taking a break from the usual discussion of specific passages, it might be fruitful to discuss the impact Wittgenstein had on specific contemporary philosophers/theorists. A review posted recently to the London Review of Books reminded me just how influential Wittgenstein... Investigations tiet0024 2005-06-02T14:37:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/022387.html "124. Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give anything a foundation either. It leaves everything as it is. It also leaves mathematics as... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-29T13:06:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/022293.html Sorry for the delay in updates this week, I've been somewhat under the weather for the past few days. Things are starting to look up a bit, so I hope to post again (as well as answer some questions in... The Person tiet0024 2005-05-26T17:18:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/021957.html "120. When I talk about language (words, sentences, etc.) I must speak the language of every day. Is this language somehow too coarse and material for what we want to say? Then how is another one to be constructed?--And how... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-20T19:42:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/021931.html "107. The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation: it was a requirement.) The conflict now becomes... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-19T22:01:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/021831.html "The silence in which philosophy begins is the recognition of my lostness to myself, something Wittgenstein's text [Philosophical Investigations] figures as the emptiness of my words, my craving or insistence upon their emptiness, upon wanting them to do what human... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-17T12:51:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/021772.html As the calendar on the right hand side of the screen will indicate, finals week (last week) was difficult, but is now over. Back to regular updates, and possibly new projects. Wittgenstein's philosophy is a springboard to new thought, but... The Person tiet0024 2005-05-16T14:12:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/021767.html "114. (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.5): 'The general form of propositions is: This is how things are.' --That is the kind of proposition that one repeats to oneself countless times. One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-16T13:07:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020998.html "226. Suppose someone gets the series of numbers 1, 3, 5, 7,... by working out the series 2x + 1. And now he asks himself: 'But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?' If from... Investigations tiet0024 2005-05-04T00:07:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020946.html My apologies for failing to keep up with the regular schedule. After celebrating Wittgenstein's (and my) birthday somewhat excessively this weekend, I was left with little time to finish the necessary drudge-work that fills the latter part of the semester.... The Person tiet0024 2005-05-03T09:17:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020630.html "203. Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about." --from Philosophical Investigations The Investigations themselves serve as... Investigations tiet0024 2005-04-27T21:18:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020555.html "For more than one reason what I publish here today will have points of contact with what other people are writing to-day.--If my remarks do not bear a stamp which marks them as mine,--I do not wish to lay any... Investigations tiet0024 2005-04-26T22:17:31-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020554.html "445. It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact." --from Philosophical Investigations I give you an order. You do as I tell you to, or not, as you choose. Contact has been made between my expectation... Investigations tiet0024 2005-04-26T22:08:17-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tiet0024/wittgenstein/020474.html Today, April 26th, is Wittgenstein's 116th birthday. We at the Wittgenstein Youth Brigade would appreciate it if, in honor of this day, you refrained from participation in any and all epistemology classes. There are many more important things one can... The Person tiet0024 2005-04-26T08:06:26-06:00