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willow
today i will be live-skeeting philosophical investigations
willowNov 28, 2024
also like, it makes me happy to notice how much human communication is utterly meaningless from the standpoint of propositional logic. and microblogging enhances this too, with plenty of unexpressed lemmas by necessity
willow
i kinda adore wittgenstein bc he's like therapy for a specific kind of autist; pragmatism captures it nicely: for only certain people could these problematic situations even arise, people that find specific types of language-games alluring, and that they need to think their way out of
willow
side note: listening to an audiobook while following along on a pdf + closing my browser + turning off notifs on everything makes me feel really in touch with my ancestors living through the dark ages of pre-internet (only somewhat undercut by the fact that i've chosen to live-skeet now, apparently)
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me getting 400 errors on my malformed api requests
42. But has for instance a name which has never been used for a tool also got a meaning in that game?—Let us assume that "X" is such a sign and that A gives this sign to B—well, even such signs could be given a place in the language-game, and B might have, say, to answer them too with a shake of the head. (One could imagine this as a sort of joke between them.)
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this is how kasey spawned actually
52. IfI am inclined to suppose that a mouse has come into being by spontaneous generation out of grey rags and dust, I shall do well to examine those rags very closely to see how a mouse may have hidden in them, how it may have got there and so on. But if I am convinced that a mouse cannot come into being from these things, then this investigation will perhaps be superfluous.
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willow
"We can draw a boundary— for a special purpose. Does it take that to make the concept usable? Not at all! (Except for that special purpose.)"
71. One might say that the concept 'game' is a concept with blurred edges.—"But is a blurred concept a concept at all?"—Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all? Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often exactly what we need?
willow
when he penetrates my phenomena: @_@
90. We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena:
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like why'd he emphasize it like that 🤨🏳️‍🌈
willow
wait shit i posted this next one on main instead of in the thread
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