(That was actually mop-up. I unironically believe “we” “broke” transmission of the scientific egregore in WWII and it slowly asphyxiated.)
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I think about this all the time, essentially all technology today is just downstream of things we developed immediately post-war.
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Replying to @SpectralKaiser @othercriteria and
I wonder go which degree we have to blame Kuhn’s idea of Normal Science, which describes what now looks like a postmodernist pathology, and is often seen as presciptive. The more a field reads Kuhn, the more broken, um, the more like sociology it is.
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Replying to @Plinz @SpectralKaiser and
I think Kuhn was describing what was already happening more than he was causing it, though. The project to Record the Ultimate Laws of the Universe as had already ended
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Replying to @bobpoekert @Plinz and
you could blame late Wittgenstein as easily as you could blame Kuhn
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Replying to @bobpoekert @SpectralKaiser and
Nobody I meet seems to have ever read Wittgenstein. He is one of those guys where everybody just thinks they know what he meant.
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Replying to @Plinz @bobpoekert and
I assume Tractatus Logico-philosophicus doesn’t count rip.
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Replying to @othercriteria @bobpoekert and
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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Replying to @Plinz @othercriteria and
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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Replying to @Plinz @othercriteria and
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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Positivism was a methodological tool. Science made progress when it believed in questions, not methodologism. Prepositivist science was not premodernist. I agree, the Investigations reflect the end of modernism. They probationary did not cause it.
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