Archive for the 'Wittgenstein' Category

Ugly ducklings - taking off

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Ugly ducklings - taking off

Now I am seeing this as a knife and fork.

Ugly ducklings - improved version

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Ugly ducklings - improved version
Focussing on the essential.

Ugly ducklings

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Ugly ducklings

duck-rabbit-head
The picture might have been shown to me, and I never have seen anything but a bunny in it.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig, Ludwig, redde mihi scalas meas!

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)

- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

And again, just as it is not impossible for the man who has ascended to a high place by a ladder to overthrow the ladder with his foot after his ascent, so also it is not unlikely that the Sceptic after he has arrived at the demonstration of his thesis by means of the argument proving the non-existence of proof, as it were by a step ladder, should then abolish this very argument.

- Sextus Empiricus: Adversus Mathematicos

Ludwig, Ludwig, redde mihi scalas meas!