there isn't even research in the pipeline that could turn into new technology, research is just as stalled
Almost nobody realizes that he did not mean to make a statement about the disciplinary state of philosophy, but radically preempted the entire logicist program of AI. He even understood the Church Turing thesis, but did not think that it was worth harping on it.
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The problem with the Tractatus is pointed out in the Tractatus itself. It is not meant as an argument to convince confused philosophers of anything, but a summary for those that had the same idea as him.
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whatever he intended, and I don't think he wrote intending to have any impact at all, Philosophical Investigations is as good a marker of the end of positivism as any
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