Ludwig Wittgenstein
Birth date: April 26, 1889
Died: April 29, 1951
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Within this book Wittgenstein shows that there is no structure to the world, in Heidegger's [b:Being and Time|92307|Being and Time|Martin Heidegger|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1298438455s/92307.jpg|1309352] he shows that there is a structure to the world. Each author considers an ontology (or lac...
A mystery of a book—if you could even call it that. Throughout my reading of it I had the sneaking suspicion that much of Wittgenstein's hailed "genius" was effectively a social meme; the early 20th century academic equivalent of some strange internet video gone viral that "everyone" has seen and "e...
There's a great moment in Kathryn Bigelow's otherwise-shifty Zero Dark Thirty where two characters are discussing some particular element of the search for bin Ladin. The first guy, Dan, expresses his frustration by saying "We don't know what we don't know." The other guy, Joseph, asks "What the fuc...
What the hell am I supposed to say about this?The parts I understood were hugely inspirational to my own thoughts, if I did indeed understand those parts, which I suspect I did not.What a shame that someone so clever who had decided that this book was the be-all and end-all to problems in philosophy...
Some interesting things that people are certain about:Religion You have an invisible friend who is the most important being in the world and responsible for everything that happens.Science The great strength of science is that all its findings are provisional and subject to revision at any moment if...
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