RE: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 1 Feb 2002 18:38:37 -0000 Issue 478

[Christopher Sorg <csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i don't know, to me (warning: subjective assessment ahead) the only
> philosophy one needs to read is first period wittgenstein, though that
> might sound shocking (or old school) to some.  anyway, the
> _tractatus_ is
> more like a philosophical construction kit than an actual philosophy.  i
> must admit to have failed to understand much about the formal
logic parts
> though.

The Tractatus is more like an anti-philosophy construction kit, more or less
how we shouldn't be talking in metaphors...we can only speak of that which
we know (which leaves out talking about God amongst other things).  Then
again, he essentially recanted this in his later work.

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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