On 7/22/06, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not pretending to understand much of what Wittgenstein was saying, but I > think it actually quite relevant in the context of your full post that, > according to Betrand Russel, Wittgenstein's thinking was profoundly > influenced by projective geometry and his early philosophy was in some > sense applying the principles of what he found there to linguistics.
Well, it's something of a balloon popper, but I feel I should indicate I'm more a PI man than a TLP man, meaning I favor the 2nd philosophy and trace this importance of perception to PI Part II. Russell couldn't follow and concluded maybe LW had lost it by then -- but he was just getting good, to my way of thinking. None of which is to rain on your projective geometry metaphor for mapping a natural to a computer language. That happens when we get to Bucky. :-D Kirby Key: TLP = Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Russell loved it) PI = Philosophical Investigations (weird stuff, Russell didn't get it) LW = Ludwig Wittgenstein (some big name philosopher I studied at Princeton) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
