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Pill Pod 80 - Wittgenstein
🕑 Added 2022-05-27 15:28:17 +0000 UTCThe team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he matters—even if they don't. The primary sources referenced throughout this ep are the Tractatus (https://amzn.to/3t0wD56) for Mr. Early Wittgenstein, and Philosophical Investigations (https://amzn.to/3wVfUkC) for Mr. Late Wittgenstein.
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Plastic Pills
That did wonders for my understanding of the issue😁
Walker Goff
Here’s the quote about Russell: “The reason why a function cannot be its own argument is that the sign for a function already contains the prototype of its argument, and it cannot contain itself. For let us suppose that the function F (fx) could be its own argument: in that case there would be a proposition 'F( F( fx))', in which the outer function F and the inner function F must have different meanings, since the inner one has the form Φ( fx) and the outer one has the form Ψ( Φ( fx)). Only the letter 'F' is common to the two functions, but the letter by itself signifies nothing. This immediately becomes clear if instead of 'F( Fu)' we write '∃ Φ): F( Φu). Φu s = Fu'. That disposes of Russell's paradox.” — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein https://a.co/bMCuXYo
Walker Goff
I’m no biographer of him, but I think he’s being ironic. He flexes on Russell and Whitehead by outdoing their system of logical notation and then shitting on it.
