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Today I learnt that early cognitive science was very influenced by late Wittgenstein and this terrifies me. (Mostly because it means that I’ll have to read and understand Wittgenstein, and … oh god please no).

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How I got here: I started googling for ‘knowledge-in-use’ and ‘knowledge-in-practice’, and then realised that this was a whole other rabbit hole …

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13/ It turns out that experts in ill-structured domains DON'T reason from first principles as much. They tend to reason from past cases instead! (Sure, they may TALK about concepts and principles, but the concepts are clusters of cases in their heads.) Read:

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Does anyone have a recommendation for approachable introductory Wittgenstein? (cc

, who gave me a crash course earlier).

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I seem to have found this: fivebooks.com/best-books/wit It’s a wonderfully written land-and-expand reading program into Wittgenstein, with clear reasons for each book recommendation and the order for reading them in.

Five Books: The best books on Wittgenstein, recommended by Peter Hacker

The best books about Ludwig Wittgenstein, as recommended by British philosopher and Oxford emeritus professor Peter Hacker.

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conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/wittge

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that was one i was thinking of doing lol

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Over-indexing on approachable, but this is my favorite six-word Wittgenstein summary 🙃

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"shit's fucked ya'll, even this statement" – ludwig

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Oh this is so, so good!

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This one is good

Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C....

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Thanks, will check it out!

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Duty of genius by Ray Monk, biography but also explains the concepts and ideas of his work

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There's actually a good documentary

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