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| Discussion: Wittgenstein One of the first to use symbolic logic, Wittgenstein worked closely with a more publicly recognized Bertrand Russel. I doubt the man, in all of his brilliance, had any clue how vast his ideas would eventually be, almost essential to the modern view on computer programming. But the symbolic logic had definite philosophical limitations, as it was an abstract reasoning process that translated actual subjects and predicates into alphanumeric symbols, making complex logic more feasible. >>By Hume Ungus so are you talking about the positivist stuff he did with russell? like the stuff (a perfectly descriptive symbolic logic) that godel made kind of moot with the whole incompleteness theorem? i don't really know what i'm talking about as far as all that stuff goes i'm more interested in the Philsophical Investigations curious if anyone out there has managed to read the whole thing with a reasonable amouint of undersatnding throughout not that it's dense but it is very hard to follow, in a riddle kind of way >>By jeffmjack You are not logged in. To access all functionality, you can log in via Flork. Flork is a worldwide community of people who are interested in music, movies and books. As a Flork-User, you can participate in this and other discussions, meet new people and exchange messages with other members directly: www.flork.com |