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.)
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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.
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