This seems to set up some interesting parallels to the Tractatus, but I don't think it does so in a way that improves our understanding of software engineering.

This seems to set up some interesting parallels to the Tractatus, but I don't think it does so in a way that improves our understanding of software engineering. I'm tempted to put it in the "not even wrong" category, but I'm worried that may be too harsh, and I may need to go back and think on it some more. Incidentally, computer-types may be interested to know that Alan Turing sat in on some of Wittgenstein's lectures on the foundations of mathematics, and they didn't quite see eye-to-eye. http://www.amazon.com/Wittgensteins-Lectures-Foundations-Mathematics-Cambridge/dp/0226904261 http://www.amazon.com/Wittgensteins-Lectures-Foundations-Mat... Edit: excerpt here: http://www.turing.org.uk/philosophy/ex4.html http://www.turing.org.uk/philosophy/ex4.html