Well, W thought it was a tautology that put paid to the entire history of philosophy. To vary the reference with a nother book that W would probably have also thought was stupid (Hume's Enquiry) If it's not about relations of ideas or matter of fact, into the fire with it. And Frank Ramsey capped W's remark, commenting on W's allusive gestures to "the mystical," tos how what cannot be said, by stating that "If you can't say it you can't say it, and you can't whistle it either." Which really leaves us with very little to talk about. Howza weather by you? It's cold here in Shytown.
No wonder W, having finished the Tractatus, temporarily gave up philosophy to be an elementary school teacher in Austria. He was evidentally very bad at it. Children can be cruel and unforgiving towards the terminally wierd. But Russell seduced him back to Cambrisge, and philosophy, and we got the Phil. Investigations and various other things out of it. jks
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
> "
>
>
>
> > How did Wittgenstein put it? "Whereof we cannot
> speak, thereof we should
> > be silent," or something like that.
> >
> > Carrol
>
> Sounds better in German: Wovon Mann nicht sprechen
> kann, darueber muss Mann
> schweigen.
>
> (Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be
> silent.)
>
> -- Luke
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: Well, that's certainly a tautology, isn't it
> Carrol ? Is it not trivial
> ?
>
>
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