Reading "philosophical investigations" slowly over one summer is something I'm really glad I did. Wittgenstein is an open-eyed, careful, insightful dude who som

Reading "philosophical investigations" slowly over one summer is something I'm really glad I did. Wittgenstein is an open-eyed, careful, insightful dude who somewhat necessarily speaks in cryptic parables. If you sit with a paragraph of what he said for an afternoon, by the end of the book you have will have a perspective that allows you to avoid a lot of the basic flawed assumptions our species tends to make when we think abstractly. This is pretty valuable.