just ask them to completely and non-metaphorically explain what a bassoon sounds like and go back to being productive while they fail for the rest of their life
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*Wittgensteining intensifies*
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All these words are lies, I liked it better when we couldn’t speak.
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they're only lies if you take them to apply universally
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big reason i ended up becoming skeptical of any claim to knowledge including my own claims that knowledge isn't possible is reading shitty philosophy summary books of early wittgenstein and thinking "yeah language could mean nothing at all. word games. red king dreaming."
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mind would prob change if i Read Book but i don't care to change it. thinking there is 'absolute truth' or even 'any truth' is less fun and existentially dramatising than 'what if this is all a dream dude...what if i'm a dream...what if time cube is right can't disprove it"
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.’ -Wittgenstein (from on certainty)
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Philosophy of language is like a treasure trove where 80% of the treasure is actually shiny garbage.
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I feel that philosophy of language has been left in the dust by linguistics.
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