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Replying to @DRMacIver
wittgenstein - philosophical investigations (doing its best impression of a zen self help book)
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Replying to @literalbanana
Huh. I suppose I should have remembered that given that I've read the whole thing and it indeed sounds very Wittgenstein. I liked the book but it doesn't seem to have made much of a lasting impression on me.
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Replying to @literalbanana
Yeah and I think the problem is partly that there's so much Wittgenstein in the water these days that it's easier to remember the conclusion than the metaphors because he talks for like two pages and the conclusion is one sentence you already agree with.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @literalbanana
Which is the whole point! What Wittgenstein does, as the old Roman folk expression scathingly goes, is go 'Eureka!' - because he has discovered water. And it's the most important thing to discover, in a bath. But also sounds like shitposting.
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Replying to @antlerboy @DRMacIver
it’s shockingly good tbh - he’s demonstrating his theory of language by the way he piles on meanings
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Replying to @literalbanana @antlerboy
Maybe I should revisit this book by randomly dipping back into it as a thing to study and appreciate rather than something where I read it to understand his conclusions
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it’s really fun!!pic.twitter.com/MNZi59HiaT
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Replying to @literalbanana @DRMacIver
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The lieutenant borrowed this remarkable map and had a good look at it. He discovered to his astonishment that it was not a map of the Alps, but a map of the Pyrenees. Karl Weick
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