Re: Who are We?

[Bemmzim]

In a message dated 2/4/2002 9:24:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > God this is a great list; I would have guessed I was the only one the country to have read the book. What did you think? I read it because I read Popper on Science (His notion of falsifyability is almost universally used by working scientists even if does have its limitation).

I liked it a lot.   I heard about it on NPR (Terry Gross's Fresh Air, as
it happens) and mentioned it to my wife, who gave it to me for Christmas.
I wanted it because I felt guilty for having read neither Popper nor
Wittgenstein, despite having heard lots about Popper and despite having a
copy of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Grammar that's been sitting on my
bookshelf for the last ten years.  So I figured, what better way to learn
about two philosophers than by reading an account of their academic
catfight?   Who knew I was prepping myself for the latest Brin-L snit?
;-)
OK lets duke it out. Are you a Popperite of a Wickstensteinian? It seems to me that although the authors felt the tug of Wickstenstein

' charisma, that Popper was the more influential of the two in the general world and that this is exactly as each would have it.