Pill Pod 80 - Wittgenstein
Added 2022-05-27 15:28:17 +0000 UTCThe team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he mattersβeven if they don't. The primary sources referenced throughout this ep are the Tractatus (https://amzn.to/3t0wD56) for Mr. Early Wittgenstein, and Philosophical Investigations (https://amzn.to/3wVfUkC) for Mr. Late Wittgenstein.
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That did wonders for my understanding of the issueπ
Plastic Pills
2022-06-11 14:21:12 +0000 UTCHereβs the quote about Russell: βThe reason why a function cannot be its own argument is that the sign for a function already contains the prototype of its argument, and it cannot contain itself. For let us suppose that the function F (fx) could be its own argument: in that case there would be a proposition 'F( F( fx))', in which the outer function F and the inner function F must have different meanings, since the inner one has the form Ξ¦( fx) and the outer one has the form Ξ¨( Ξ¦( fx)). Only the letter 'F' is common to the two functions, but the letter by itself signifies nothing. This immediately becomes clear if instead of 'F( Fu)' we write 'β Ξ¦): F( Ξ¦u). Ξ¦u s = Fu'. That disposes of Russell's paradox.β β Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein https://a.co/bMCuXYo
Walker Goff
2022-06-11 13:52:35 +0000 UTCIβm no biographer of him, but I think heβs being ironic. He flexes on Russell and Whitehead by outdoing their system of logical notation and then shitting on it.
Walker Goff
2022-06-11 13:16:19 +0000 UTC
