Ok I just realized Wittgenstein was saying that all philosophers before him were just life-long victims of nerdsniping and that's the most hilarious thing
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Ooo I c. Felt to me like it was pretty consistently a part of the man's work.
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Right right I think this is a major point of contention between scholars of his work which reminds me: if the thing you do is just be a scholar of someone else's work you're a historian of philosophy not a philosopher
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I think you have succinctly summarized why most academic philosopher's *don't* engage with Wittgenstein's work, ironically enough.
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Loool shot myself in the foot there although it's hard to make a man engage with a body of work when it implies that his whole field and life have been a fake
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