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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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      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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    2. Coach Stevo‏ @thecoachstevo 1 Jun 2018
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      It’s almost like meaning is in use.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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      Yup! Relatedly: ethnomethodology draws heavily (if not always openly) on Wittgenstein.

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    4. Coach Stevo‏ @thecoachstevo 1 Jun 2018
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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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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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      Yes, I gather he was seriously unhappy with the later Wittgenstein.

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    6. Coach Stevo‏ @thecoachstevo 1 Jun 2018
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      Inconclusive...pic.twitter.com/GOf8w2glIH

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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      I think that may be exactly the quote I had in mind!

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    8. Coach Stevo‏ @thecoachstevo 1 Jun 2018
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      A hot take from a 1989 PBS documentary on Wittgenstein: https://youtu.be/8BoKjQfMihs#t=43m26s …

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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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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    10. Coach Stevo‏ @thecoachstevo 1 Jun 2018
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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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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Jun 2018
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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.

      10:19 PM - 1 Jun 2018
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