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i can see it on pds!! cdn me motherfucker!!

one of the many reasons i enjoy wittgenstein is that he articulates one elaboration of hegel's dictum: "philosophy arises when life has lost its unity" www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

waaaa

cdn borked ig /shrug

getBlobbing my bloomfies so i can understand wtf they're talking abt

today i will be live-skeeting philosophical investigations

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

bsky mentioned??

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

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)

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.)

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.

"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?

when he penetrates my phenomena: @_@

90. We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena:

like why'd he emphasize it like that 🤨🏳️‍🌈

wait shit i posted this next one on main instead of in the thread

that's my goat 🥹

like i have my criticisms for ordinary language philosophy but tell me this doesn't go hard

109. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

wait huh what happened with my blob bro

i can see it on pds!! cdn me motherfucker!!

wittgenstein the marxologist explaining that the money-commodity also has an exchange-value and a use-value.... waow

120. You say: the point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning. The money, and the cow that you can buy with it. (But contrast: money, and its use.)

moral support 🥺

in theory it's probably more structurally sound and you can do fun things with pressure and angles, but we'd have to test it out to confirm 😉

"Where language is perceived to be the site of progressive action, action is taken in language. Actions taken in other spheres can become less urgent and less necessary."

Loneliness and Its Opposite, pg 37. Don Kulick and Jens Rydström.
What we will present in this book, though, is the example of a country where wildly politically incorrect language about disability coexists with policies and practices that are both politically radical (for what they mean for the rights of people with disabilities as citizens) and ethically progressive (for what they imply about how disabled and nondisabled people might imagine and engage with one another). This contrasts starkly with Denmark’s neighbor, Sweden. There, language about disability is constantly monitored and uncompromisingly judged. But policies and practices relating to the sexual lives of people with disabilities are politically retrogressive and ethically arrested. Significantly disabled individuals’ access to sex is actively blocked—by the very same people who would be the first to correct you if you said “handicap” instead of “disability.”

some of my favorite anecdotes are from this book

Loneliness and Its Opposite, pg 35-36. Don Kulick and Jens Rydström.
Denmark is strikingly different on this front—there, there is little or no political correctness when it comes to the language used to talk about disability. Even people who work most closely with and care most passionately about people with significant disabilities habitually use words like spastic (spastiker) when referring to people with cerebral palsy—and, indeed, people with cerebral palsy call themselves spastics. The name of their advocacy organization is the Association of Spastics (Spastikerforeningen), and their bi- monthly magazine is called The Spastic (Spastikeren). Another telling example that succinctly sums up Denmark’s unique relationship to politically correct language regarding disability is what happened to the Danish Association for People with Restricted Growth (Landsforening for Væktshæmmede). In June 2007, by a vote of its members, the association officially changed its name to the Association of Dwarves (Dværgeforeningen). Their members’ magazine is Short and Sweet (Kort og Godt). And at one of the group homes where Don lived while conducting fieldwork, he sat outside one morning having a cup of coffee with a female social worker in her sixties who had worked in that group home for twenty years. This woman was devoted to her job and clearly was much loved by the young men and women who lived in the group home. In between puffs of her cigarette, she turned to Don to tell him a story about a young woman who lived there. “Og så har vi den lille mongol,” she said: “We have the little mongoloid.” As soon she said “den lille mongol,” the woman stopped and apologized, perhaps because she noticed that Don had nearly choked on his coffee. “Oh, undskyld,” she said. “Sorry; I know I shouldn’t say ‘little.’ She’s an adult.”

i had a friend in high school that sat in her friend's living room while they got eiffel tower'd upstairs

he told me he doesn't need it because when the company goes evil he'll hold all the keys anyway

SEE I TOLD YOU

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no he cares about me deeply, you just don't understand what we have

no he cares about me deeply, you just don’t understand what we have

erm its called createRecord in my terminal

one of those days

my fav part abt this is that while it’s accurate that it’s categorically untrue (PDS != relay), the part he focuses on (rightly, because it’s the point being made) is not qualitative but quantitative

just tickled my brain, i have no real point here

“ok fuck it we’re doing a denpa vlog” WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK

yea admittedly i’m not familiar w everything he’s done, glad to hear he escaped the trenches

i’m listening and just absorbing the vibes :3

by the way, i hope me talking about the language aspect doesn’t take away from the accomplishment in any way - it’s really cool that you did this! i really appreciate the energy in your voice, and i hope you’re proud of it :)

every so often there’s a string of proper nouns and i’m like aw hell yea i know those

if? (don’t hate me for this one >.>)