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6/29/2025, 10:16:59 PM
>>24506532
>I understand, his revised arguments in philosophical investigations is almost impossible to challenge
Quite the opposite. Arguments from underdetermination like the rule following and private were well known to the ancients but also considered to be easily dismissed. Only materialism and the resultant empiricist epistemic presuppositions made them a sort of "crisis."
>>24506532
It's too simple. That use fixes meaning is an insight as old as Saint Augustine but Wittgenstein absolutizes it in such a way that it seems to lead to relativism, particularly in On Certainty. It's quintessential Boomer phil in that it packs that unique one-two punch on ignorance and arrogance that doesn't bother to look at what others had said about this at all prior to theorizing.
It leads to a view where language always refers only to language, a sort of box, the recreation of the Cartesian box just in a slightly different form, and doesn't even anticipate the realist response to this because Wittgenstein never read Aristotle, let alone conducted any sort of study of philosophy outside his narrow bubble.
>I understand, his revised arguments in philosophical investigations is almost impossible to challenge
Quite the opposite. Arguments from underdetermination like the rule following and private were well known to the ancients but also considered to be easily dismissed. Only materialism and the resultant empiricist epistemic presuppositions made them a sort of "crisis."
>>24506532
It's too simple. That use fixes meaning is an insight as old as Saint Augustine but Wittgenstein absolutizes it in such a way that it seems to lead to relativism, particularly in On Certainty. It's quintessential Boomer phil in that it packs that unique one-two punch on ignorance and arrogance that doesn't bother to look at what others had said about this at all prior to theorizing.
It leads to a view where language always refers only to language, a sort of box, the recreation of the Cartesian box just in a slightly different form, and doesn't even anticipate the realist response to this because Wittgenstein never read Aristotle, let alone conducted any sort of study of philosophy outside his narrow bubble.
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