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| God: God is a supreme being or creator deity that is worshipped in various religions. God is often described as being omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent (all-good). God is also often believed to be the creator and sustainer of the universe. See also Religion, Religious belief, Theology, Creation myth, Culture, Cultural tradition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on God - Dictionary of Arguments
Hintikka I 374 God/Divine Viewpoint/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: if God looked into our heads, he would find the feelings, but not the reference. Hintikka: in the examples where he cannot see anything, it is about meaning. (>Intentions), >World, >Limits. II 110 Example 1/3 = 0.333... here there are no certain sets of numbers after the decimal point, and even for a higher being they could not exist. II 407 The claim that God overlooks the entire extension of π has no meaning at all. The only criterion of existence is the actual proof, if there is any proof. IV 114 God/Tractatus: 6,432 The nature of the world is completely indifferent to the higher. God does not reveal himself in the world. >Religious belief. VII 115 God/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/Tetens: Diary notes during the time of Tractatus: The world is given to me, i.e. my will approaches the world from outside as something finished. Therefore we have the feeling that we are dependent on a foreign will... In a certain sense we are dependent and that on which we are dependent, we can call God". (1969, p. 166f), Wittgenstein orally: "I am not a religious person, but I cannot help it: I see every problem from a religious point of view" (according to Maurice O'Connor Drury, (Malcolm 1993(1), Rhees 1987(2), p., 121)). 1. Norman Malcolm: Wittgenstein: A religious point of view? Routledge 1993 2. Rush Rhees, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Portraits und Gespräche, Frankfurt/M. 1987._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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