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> They are quite opposed as texts! The texts are quite different, this is true, but I don't find them contradictory. Whereas Tractatus was almost a facetious o
by darby_eight 3y ago
> They are quite opposed as texts!
The texts are quite different, this is true, but I don't find them contradictory. Whereas Tractatus was almost a facetious or flippant rejection of the millenia-long project to agree on a philosophical subset of language suitable for rigorous philosophy (although it continues today in the form of analytical philosophy), PI basically says "well we don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water", which I think is a fantastically mature response to a flawed tool that's still the best we have to reason about the universe. So: not contradictory in evaluation of fundamental compatibility of non-formal language for the formal needs of propositional philosophy, but perhaps contradictory in implied reaction to this realization.