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| Lists, theory of science: this is, among other things, about the problem of completeness and how completeness is expressed without proof. The question is whether lists are useful in the treatment of regularities and whether the specification of principles is possible instead._____________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 Lists - Dictionary of Arguments
II 150f Class/Logical Sum/Logical Product/List/Properties/Wittgenstein: if a class can be specified by a list, it is a logical product or a sum, e.g. tones of an octave. Then the class is not defined by characteristics, but in the grammar. "Tone of an octave" is not a property of a tone. N.B.: it is not necessary to add: "and these are all" - that would apply even if the world consisted only of particulars. By contrast: if a class is defined by properties. II 265 Ability/Language Game/Circumstance/Wittgenstein: II 266 For example, a tribe learns certain songs and poems by heart. Before they are performed in public, they are rehearsed in silence. Does "can" mean that the silent rehearsing is successful? The use of "can" is therefore based on this special fact. Without this circumstance it would not have become established. However, the circumstance itself does not enter into the meaning of "can", unless "meaning" means the description of the entire practice of using this word. However, such a description cannot be given, because no list will be long enough. (> Theory of Use of Meaning/Wittgenstein). II 416 WittgensteinVsRussell: he was looking to get another "entity" besides the list, so he provided a function that uses identity to define that entity. List/Class/Wittgenstein: usually a function is not replaced by a list (class). Function/List/infinite/Wittgenstein: a harmful consequence of the attempt to exchange function and list results in connection with infinite lists. For example, the movement of a pendulum can be calculated depending on whether it is attracted by a finite or infinite number of bodies. II 417 Determining the number of bodies by law is something completely different from counting them._____________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 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16