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To: RightWhale

But then again, the latter Wittgenstein, in the Philosophical Investigations, saw all of philosophy as a therapeutic activity, employed to relieve the puzzlement generated by philosophers' misuse of ordinary language.


53 posted on 06/09/2005 1:19:04 PM PDT by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC

Sometimes the later Philosopher is the important, if unrecognized, philosopher, as Husserl; sometimes the later Philosopher is worthy of honorary doctorates based on his earlier work, if he shows up to the ceremony.


56 posted on 06/09/2005 1:35:09 PM PDT by RightWhale (I know nothing, and less every day)
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To: BikerNYC
employed to relieve the puzzlement generated by philosophers' misuse of ordinary language.

This is another interesting behavioural tidbit--I suspect that the philosophers' misuse of ordinary language partly results out of attempting to attempt mathematical precision with words, and about qualitative or (to coin a phrase--see how easy it is ?) essential qualities.

And as a consequence, since the philosophers, like ordinary scientists, use the same base of words as ordinary folks, but with (for the philosophers) distinct and specialized meanings, the philosophers may be tempted to believe "Hey! We're scientific! (and therefore enlightened)."

Cheers!

Full Disclosure: recall Feynman's discussion of cargo cults and his comparison of them to psychologists in particular, I believe in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.

73 posted on 06/10/2005 6:12:42 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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