2023-11-02 Thu 15.08pm [[Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 - Philosophical Investigations (Schulte 2009 translation).pdf]] 2022-12-12 Mon 12:50 PM > [!-cf-]+ [[Related notes]] > - [[Ref. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]] > - [[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language]] On philosophical problems being problems of language: > 90. We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena: our investigation, however, is directed not towards phenomena, but, as one might say, towards the 'possibilities' of phenomena. We remind ourselves, that is to say, of the kind of statement that we make about phenomena. Thus Augustine recalls to mind the different statements that are made about the duration, past present or future, of events. (These are, of course, not philosophical statements about time, the past, the present and the future.) > Our investigation is therefore a grammatical one. Such an investigation sheds light on our problem by clearing misunderstandings away. Misunderstandings concerning the use of words, caused, among other things, by certain analogies between the forms of expression in different regions of language.—Some of them can be removed by substituting one form of expression for another; this may be called an "analysis" of our forms of expression, for the process is sometimes like one of taking a thing apart. > 109. It was true to say that our considerations could not be scientific ones. It was not of any possible interest to us to find out empirically 'that, contrary to our preconceived ideas, it is possible to think suchand-such'—whatever that may mean. (The conception of thought as a gaseous medium.) And we may not advance any kind of theory. There must not be anything hypothetical in our considerations. We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. And this description gets its light, that is to say its purpose, from the philosophical problems. These are, of course, not empirical problems; they are solved, rather, by looking into the workings of our language, and that in such a way as to make us recognize those workings: in despite of an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. **Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language**. > 111. **The problems arising through a misinterpretation of our forms of language have the character of depth**. They are deep disquietudes; their roots are as deep in us as the forms of our language and their significance is as great as the importance of our language.——Let us ask ourselves: why do we feel a grammatical joke to be deep* (And that is what the depth of philosophy is.) >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2024-09-16T03:13:20.582Z","updated":"2024-09-16T03:13:20.582Z","document":{"title":"Philosophical Investigations","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:bceed8b20ad3364670c75dfd69f3c15a"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 - Philosophical Investigations (Schulte 2009 translation).pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"bceed8b20ad3364670c75dfd69f3c15a"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 - Philosophical Investigations (Schulte 2009 translation).pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 - Philosophical Investigations (Schulte 2009 translation).pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":54580,"end":54916},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"After several unsuccessful attempts to weld my results together intosuch a whole, I realized that I should never succeed. 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