wittgenstein

Apparently Wittgenstein was happiest when a student _gave up_ philosophy.

Wait, Yudkowsky is considered worth skipping Wittgenstein for?

I don't think of Wittgenstein and silliness as exactly hanging out together.

There's a swipe at Wittgenstein further on still.

Surely Wittgenstein had permission to use Occam's razor?

In it, Wittgenstein touts his logical atomism.

In CS, I've run into Kleene a lot and Wittgenstein never.

And maybe it's just my experience, but Wittgenstein was always shoved down our throats in my undergraduate and graduate classes, whereas people may have never even heard of Jan Łukasiewicz or Stephen Kleene.

So I was surprised when, early in college, I read a quote by Wittgenstein saying that he had no self-discipline and had never been able to deny himself anything, not even a cup of coffee.

Have you seen Victor Rodych's entry at the plato.stanford.edu site entitled "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics"?

PG wrote in How to do Philosophy: "Wittgenstein is popularly credited with the idea that most philosophical controversies are due to confusions over language." Here the author fiddles with the word 'cyborg', bending its definition in a fruitless philosophical argument that benefits us not and humors most of us not.

If what it is like to be human, much less a bat, turns out to be empirically situated in the dense switchboard of the brain, what happens to Shakespeare, Swift, Woolf, or Wittgenstein when it comes to explaining ourselves to ourselves?" Nothing, of course.

Honestly, Wittgenstein's philosophical critiques of set theory in relation to the foundations of mathematics still hold true today.

Wittgenstein was smart, but he never did anything focused precisely because of his lack of discipline.

At the very least one should put the Tractatus in context with Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.