Philisophical investigationsLudwig Wittgenstein
Philisophical investigations
by Ludwig Wittgenstein · first published 1958
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Christianson and Chater's "The Language Game". This book changed the way I viewed everything, and also led me to read "The Philisophical Investigations", which I would also put up there.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗I read the first 100 pages or so of Philisophical Investigations before giving up since I had lost track of the lines of reasoning. Here's what I got out of what I did read though: Language is far more important in philosophy and life than we think. The biggest takeaway…
on “Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire” ↗…the pandemic this was already the case; you can be prosecuted in many countries for the intentional (or intentionally undisclosed) transmission of HIV. Talk about privacy reminds me of Wittgenstein’s Philisophical Investigations, in which he expounds that we get into so much conceptual trouble when we try to use words like “truth” in the abstract instead of looking at cases where people actually say that word. Privacy is not…
on “The Marginal Ethics of Privacy” ↗