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- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:38:31 GMT
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- PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO WITTGENSTEIN
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- MEDICAL TECHNIQUE, a therapy, a method of healing
- UEBERSICHT, a clear view of the world, over all understanding
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- The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of
- an illness. PI $255.
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- There is not a philosophical method,, though there are indeed
- methods, like different therapies. PI $133.
- Philosophy is a medicine which is sometimes curative and sometimes
- preventive.
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- Philosophical questions, when you boil them down to what they
- really amount to, change their aspect entirely. What evaporates is
- what the intellect cannot take. MS 159, 3b.
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- Philosophical investigations: conceptual investigations. The
- essencial thing about metaphysics: it obliterates the distinction
- between factual and conceptual investigations.
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- Philosophy, in its therapeutic attention to logical forms it must
- be factual, empirical ($108-9,116-17,124-27;GI 51-52)
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- The task of philosophy is not to create a new, ideal language, but
- to clarify the use of our language...its aim is to remove
- particular misunderstandings; not to produce a real understanding
- for the first time. PG 115.
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- Philosophy is a tool which is useful only against philosophers and
- against the philosopher in use. MS 219,11
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- Philosophy is embodied not in propositions but in a language.
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- Philosophy has a destructive role, all that philosophy can do is to
- destroy idols. And that means not to make new ones - say out of
- "the absence of idols". MS 213,413.
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- A main souce of our failure to understand is that we do not command
- a clear view of the use of our words. Our grammar is lacking in
- perspicuity....PI 42.
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- We want to establish an order in our knowledge of the use of
- language...aiming at complete clarity. PI $132-3.
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- It is the task of philosophy to achieve an order, an order which
- gives complete clarity.
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- We may not advance any kind of theory. There must not be anything
- hypothetical in our considerations. We must do away with all
- expalanations, and the description alone must take its space. PI
- $109.
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- It is not that a new building has to be erected, or that a new
- bridge has to be built, but that the geography, as it now is, has
- to be judged. We certainly see bits of the concepts, but don't
- clearly see that declivities by which one passes into others. RFM
- 157.
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- Der Begriff der uebersichtlichen Darstellung is fuer uns von
- grundlegender Bedeutung. Er bezieichnet unsere Darstellungsform,
- die Art wie wir die Dinge sehen.
- Diese uebersichtliche Darstellung vermittelt das Verstaendnis,
- welches eben darin besteht, dass wir die "Zusammenhaenge sehen".
- Daher die Wichtigkeit des Findens von Zwischeng liedern.
- (connections, itermediate-links) RFGB 9
- (read further: "formalen Zusammen hangs = formal connections) see
- how he ties to set up connections with ghost, shade, soul, spirit)
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- We must distinguish the concepts from each other one by one..It is
- helpful to note both differences and similarities. Man 167.
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- The matter cannot be clarified by raging against your words, but by
- trying to turn your attention away from the use of the words (Man
- 228, $44; cp $$120,144). It is never right to say simply: 'no, that
- is false, it must be abandoned'. (man 112, 197; cp $$423-24;Z 460)
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- By being educated in a technique, (a technique has a physiognomy),
- we are also educated to have a way of looking at the matter which
- is just firmly rooted as that technique. RFM 124.
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- I want to say: an education quite different from ours might also be
- the foundation for quite different concepts. For here life would
- run on differently.- What interests us would not interest
- them...Z387-88
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- Philosoph isn't anything except philosophical problems, the
- particular individual worries that we call "philosophical
- problems:"
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- What has to be overcome is not a difficulty of understanding but of
- the will. PI 59-60.
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- Philosophy has close affinity to Politics. (Ibn Rushd's Commentary
- on Plato's Republic)
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