Another key philosophical point: reference is a “situated accomplishment.” When the Ikea instructions refer to “Long bolts, J”, the guys spent a couple minutes collaborating to discover what in the physical world it’s talking about. And they get it wrong. And repair the error.
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Replying to @thecoachstevo
Yup! Relatedly: ethnomethodology draws heavily (if not always openly) on Wittgenstein.
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Oh wow that makes sense. I can imagine Russell fuming that Wittgenstein was punting epistemological foundations to the anthropologists. And like, poking at the air with his pipe.
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Replying to @thecoachstevo
Yes, I gather he was seriously unhappy with the later Wittgenstein.
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I think that may be exactly the quote I had in mind!
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A hot take from a 1989 PBS documentary on Wittgenstein: https://youtu.be/8BoKjQfMihs#t=43m26s …
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Yes… to be charitable to Russell, what Wittgenstein was doing in Philosophical Investigations was so radically different that it must have been extremely easy to miss his point at the time.
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Also by the time PI came out in 1953, Russell’s philosophical project had petered out. He did have a shiny new Nobel Prize (1950 for literature) though. I’m sure that helped ease the pain of irrelevance.
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Yes, good point. It probably seemed to Russell like Wittgenstein was justifying failure, rather than that he was pointing in an exciting new direction.
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