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Everybody lies

We come to this world and assume it to be a stable one, with clear binary classification. Then one reads Wittgenstein or something similar and discovered the lies at the foundation of their world view. Then what?

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Wittgenstein 7. Tragedy

A tragedy “helps” to look deeper. It is hard, but strips from stereotypes and preconceived patterns (expectations). Maybe that’s why it was the first theatric form developed by Ancient Greeks. We all experience problems, but very few of us get them as many and as deep as Wittgenstein.

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Wittgenstein 6. Patterns

Pattern recognition and automatic decision making create a foundation for our third activity of explaining (rationalizing) our decisions and whatever we observe – all the time, never pausing. Most of this third activity is done automatically too. Yet some of it we do consciously, sometimes with great effort, trying to “understand” – to discover the […]

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Wittgenstein 5. Thinking

A human, even in doubt, finds a way to make a decision, may be based just on the liking the instructor or not. Or on using some kind of moral principles. Or just from sheer compassion. Such irrational decision making apparently was beneficial, since human species managed to survive so far. This means that our […]

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Wittgenstein 4. Language

The change of the view on the language – from modeling structure to reflecting usage – was the primary motivation for Wittgenstein to write his second book Philosophical Investigations, where he introduced the notion of “language games”. He now states that the meaning of a word or even a sentence comes from the context of […]

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Wittgenstein 2. Inexpressible

If we try to talk about inexpressible – which goes beyond the language capacity – like philosophy does, in Wittgenstein’s view – we begin fighting non-existing problems and just waste time. That’s how Wittgenstein was able to claim that he solved all philosophical problems – by dismissing the alleged problems as nonsensical – made-up problems.

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