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I took 1 class a decade ago, so I’m all bullshit but it strikes me the Tractatus-type “calculus” conception of language tries to turn language into a well-structured domain. Maybe this is why I keep telling kids Google’s “dictionary” of scraped definitions is a facade of meaning.

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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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Late Wittgenstein, though. Tractacus was early Wittgenstein.

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Right. If I’m not misunderstanding, it’s a bad idea to try to force organic systems into acting well-structured?

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I think so! The connection to CFT seems to be with late Wittgenstein, where concepts are only given meaning through use, or through practice.

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Yes, then in my perhaps strained analogy, Early Witt -> Learn monolithic meanings of words. Late Witt -> Compare flexible uses of them.

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Oh wow, I see where you're going with this now. <3

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