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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
bsky mentioned??
33. Imagine various different cases. To indicate a few: "Is this blue the same as the blue over there? Do you see any difference?"— You are mixing paint and you say "It's hard to get the blue of this sky." "It's turning fine, you can already see blue sky again." "Look what different effects these two blues have." "Do you see the blue book over there? Bring it here.” "This blue signal-light means... ." "What's this blue called?—Is it 'indigo'?"
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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.)
willow
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.
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?
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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
willow
that's my goat 🥹
65. Here we come up against the great question that lies behind all these considerations ——For someone might object against me: "You take the easy way out! You talk about all sorts of language games, but have nowhere said what the essence of a language-game, and hence of language, is: what is common to all these activities, and what makes them into language or parts of language. So you let yourself off the very part of the investigation that once gave you yourself most headache, the part about the general form of propositions and of language." And this is true.—Instead of producing something common to all that we call language, I am saying that these phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all,— but that they are related to one another in many different ways. And it is because of this relationship, or these relationships, that we call them all "language". I will try to explain this.
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