WITTGENSTEIN on LANGUAGE GAMES (interview clip)

This is a clip from an interview with Michael Potter, Cambridge Professor and Wittgenstein expert, where we discuss Wittgenstein's notion of a language game.
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This channel features videos about big ideas in philosophy, explained as simply as I can. The focus is on late 19th and early 20th century thought, with a particular emphasis on the British Idealists (e.g. F. H. Bradley, J. M. E. McTaggart) and early analytic philosophers (Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Ramsey). Welcome to the channel!
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I am a PhD student and Gates Scholar at Cambridge having submitted a thesis on Frege's views on Truth. I have lectured at Cambridge on Frank Ramsey and Bertrand Russell, regularly taught undergraduate logic classes, and have also supervised students in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, epistemology, and early analytic philosophy. But I have a keen interest in the British Idealists that I hope to pursue by making videos about what I'm reading, so much of the content of this channel will be an outlet for that interest.

[@simka321]

The notion of "form of life" is clearly delineated in diverse schemes taken from developmental psychology - whether Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory, or Greuter's Nine Stagers of Ego Development. The qualities of cognition that some observers and theorists in these fields are clearly so diverse among those who operate within the parameters of the different registers of consciousness (especially between what Spiral Dynamics call 1st and 2nd tier consciousness) that it becomes the primary source for most of our social confusion when people thinking from different levels and stages of experience attempt to communicate about any but the most elementary, everyday facts.

[@AbsolutePhilosophy]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@solonightingale2632]

In his Tractatus he claimed that what is the case can be described by my language, "my world" which makes sense to me. Later in one's life one discovers "the underlying mysticism" that not only must be accepted 《as is》 in silence, but that 'penetrates' one's daily routine (in L.W.'s earlier work the language was supposed to be a perfect tool to describe all that can be described) in an unpredictable fashion which is 'arbitrary'. Actually, there must be a way of improving our way of interacting with the reality playfully, i.e. not so much "correcting" our propositions about the world presented for our investigation but rather throwing dice against our destiny. Very much the way today's quantum physicists do against the universe which flips immediately and always ahead of any predication one may choose. Apperantly that kind of philosopizing could not have been finished in one's life span or even indefinitely "on this side of a see-saw" (I have done what could be done. Let he completes the work Who knows better, or some such comment had been put forward by the author of Investigations).

[@tonysandy7803]

If we see language as a message, then it is composed of the sender (active transmitter) and recipient (passive receiver). Continuing the military analogy it is also a code that you have to understand to translate and interpret.

[@tonysandy7803]

That's the trouble with philosophy

[@tonysandy7803]

@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt as they say God has got nothing to do with it. Simple logic and language that describes it.

[@Dino_Medici]

Man as a person who has narrowed my focus into the study of art and beauty. Just opening the tractatus and looking at it is wild lol

[@Dino_Medici]

Cool channel dude keep it up!

[@AbsolutePhilosophy]

Thanks! I will 😊

[@jipangoo]

The starting point (below the level of Culture) is generative grammar

[@jipangoo]

This guy reminds me of my hons supervisor

[@jipangoo]

Finally. A quality channel.

[@AbsolutePhilosophy]

Thanks!