Well, he elucidated the limitations of language including the concept that words produced by one human to describe an experience cannot cause another to have that same experience. Not too hoity-toity.
----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 11:51 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not. Wittgenstein was very cool. But he wasn't a *builder*. (... as > far as I know. I'd be happy to be wrong.) The thing that (in my ignorant > opinion) distinguishes people like Wittgenstein from people like Gödel, von > Neumann, Feynman, etc. ... even Penrose with the tilings and such, is that > they *build* things. Until the hoity-toity results from the unification > theorem come percolating down to morons like me, I'll continue treating > constructive proofs as better and more real/existing than classical proofs. > > On 12/11/19 10:44 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I'm surprised no one has quoted Wittgenstein: > > > > Wovon Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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