Friday, 8 March 2013

§118

The kinds of things that Wittgenstein has been saying - about bringing, "words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use" - raises a worry. Philosophy had seemed to be dealing with profound and far-reaching issues but the new method seems to only promise the destruction of all of those (apparently?) profound musings.

A couple of responses:
 (i) What is being destroyed is confused anyway (houses of cards) and...
 (ii) It clears up the 'ground of language'. - It allows us to proceed with genuinely valuable pursuits from a basis of language that makes sense - from a position of clarity.

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