Miles Jackson wrote:
>For Wittgenstein, most philosophical problems are
>pseudo-problems based on a misunderstanding of language.
>If you analyze the limits and actual uses of language,
>W contended, you realize that philosophers tend to ask
>silly questions that cannot be meaningfully answered.
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>Or put it this way: philosophy can't provide any answers,
>but it can discourage pointless questions.
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Though I agree with your description of W's work, I think it's important
to recognize that there is also a point to understanding "the silly
questions." In other words, while it may be the task of a certain kind
of philosophy to expose the missteps of philosophers, there is also room
for a cultural/historical critique of those missteps (I'm thinking of
Marx or Cassirer or Ong) that tells us a lot about the mind-set and
conditioning of specific periods.
Joanna
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