On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:06 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> But the existence of anything/everything is unnecessary and radically
> questionable; there is no thing that has to exist. As Wittgenstein
> said
> "Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
Gurdjieff has remarked that if you find five people discussing the world
you will also find that they are using the word "world" in five
different
senses. So if Wittgenstein did indeed say that (when? in what context?)
it would have to be in a very different sense than his fundamental
definition:
"Die Welt ist alles dass der fall ist." (The world is everything that
is the case.)
No way, without a priori limitations of space and time, can you get from
a sum of facts to the existence of a single whole about which it is
possible
to say anything meaningful. "Was kann mann nicht sprechen, darum muss
mann schweigen" (Shut up on what you can't say anything meaningful
about). Unless, of course, the word "mystery" is being used to refer
to that
"darum muss mann schweigen."
>>
And, by the way, *nothing* still cannot exist.
>
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos