I wonder how many people are aware that Ludwig Wittgenstein preempted the logicist program of AI a full century ago. And that the problems that Wittgenstein and symbolic AI ran into were the same. And that they are now being solved.
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The Tractatus was incomprehensible to most philosophers that read it because it is not a series of arguments. It is basically a single thought that you have to hold in your mind all at once to turn it into an operator.
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Did you read the English version or the German version for the first time? Is the English translation quality good?
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Replying to @joekina
I read the German one first, of course, but I did not yet understand it back then. The English translation is good.
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