Re: Evil genius?

[Tom Walker]

Ian Murray asked,   >And what would Wittgenstein say about all those sentences? :-)   Dunno. Will you settle for Edna Ullmann-Margalit referring to Wittgenstein in a discussion of the invisible hand and the cunning of reason?   "Only when an invisible-hand mechanism can be pointed to, can the spell of an explanation that postulates a creator, a designer, or a conspiracy be effectively broken. "It is in this sense, and in this context, that we may allude to Wittgenstein's notion of being 'in the grip of a picture': the picture is the theological picture, within which one is held in the grip of the 'argument from design.'" Perhaps, we could say O'Neill was trying to cover his ass by pointing the finger at an invisible hand. Or is that perhaps taking the notion of being 'in the grip of a picture' too graphically?     Tom Walker