Ludwig Wittgenstein

It resonated with how I had been thinking about thinking.

And I mentioned her relationship with Ludwig Wittgenstein.

I got that wrong.

Steve texted me later, a day or two later and said that that was actually Martin Heidegger that she was in a relationship with and about whom she was talking.

That's ECDO.

And even that title is not sufficient to fully describe the theory, but the theory name would have been three sentences long if I hit it in a Wittgenstein format or discipline.

So people critique the name and say, well, it's not.

And I'm like, well, yes, but I can't make the name longer than that.

When you have a very diverse lexicon with which to access at any given moment, I think...

You know, Wittgenstein, a linguistic philosopher, said the limits of my language is the limit of my world.

And I think there's debates about whether that's true or not.

But I have certainly felt that the more I've learned about languages, the English language, and I've studied Japanese as well, which has given me a completely different perspective on language.

very

influenced by Shakespeare, the Bible, Kant, Wittgenstein, all these big philosophers of the era.

So that's the crazy thing.

We got a bunch of additional reading that I barely understood.

And as an alternative, one of the things that people came up with was technical terms, polythetic definitions, as opposed to monothetic, one theme, many themes.

And this is... popularized by Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblances.

So you look at a Thanksgiving photo of your family from 2012.

Here's Uncle Willie and here's Aunt Betty and here's Cousin Joe and so on and so forth.

I could go into more philosophers like Hume and Spinoza and shit, but they all fucking say the same thing in different ways.

And sometimes they go into other – like, Wittgenstein goes into, like, I guess a more – word-based argument it's very hard to explain what he's trying to say i don't understand a lot of the shit that he says and i i think i also gotta preface that i'm not that good of a philosopher i have a degree in philosophy but i'm not like some guy that reads you know fucking a book a week like i read philosophy i love learning about it i love thinking about it But I think I'm a very, I guess, responsive individual.

I love hearing takes and giving my own opinion rather than like, I guess, studying the takes of other people for hours on end.

But I still do it because I know that it's able to strengthen my own beliefs or obviously change them.

I'm not saying that writing novels isn't an art form, but then we all know that good writers are usually the ones who are very good at working with metaphors because language has the inbuilt limitation.

And I actually said something on Substack the other day about the famous Wittgenstein argument where he said, you know, imagine everyone... is carrying around a box and the box is a beetle, but you can never actually look into the box other people are carrying around.

So we can still talk about the beetle, but we actually don't know what the beetle actually is for other people or what the beetle, you know, other people's beetle actually looked like.

And when you think about all the abstract concepts we are talking about from love, hate, conflict, whatever, Those are just abstract things that stand in for something art is trying to express, meaning the emotion, the human condition behind this particular abstract concept.