#wittgenstein — Public Fediverse posts

Nouveauté à la Grande Bibliothèque
🔸 Marrou, Élise. – Wittgenstein. – Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2026. – 258 p. – (Collection Figures du savoir). – ISBN 978-2-2514-5842-7. – BAnQ : 193 W831m 2026.
➡️ "Philosopher, c’est avant tout chercher, plutôt qu’affirmer, soutenir ou défendre." (Élise Marrou)
#BAnQ #GB #livre #nouveauté #philosophie #psychologie #logique #linguistique #Wittgenstein #recherche #savoir #réflexion #question #pensée #idées #bibliothèque #Paris #France #LesBellesLettres

Lire, interpréter, déconstruire : de Machiavel à Gadamer

Lire un texte, ce n’est pas extraire des données : c’est entrer dans un dialogue avec lui, examiner ses présupposés, ses non-dits et sa grammaire. De Ricœur à Derrida, de Wittgenstein à Gadamer, le sens apparaît comme une relation vivante, jamais comme une évidence brute. #Hermeneutics #Deconstruction #Wittgenstein #Gadamer #Philosophy L’idée de départ est simple : lire n’est pas consommer de l’information, mais…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/lire-interpreter-deconstruire-de-machiavel-a-gadamer/

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pass-the-salt

I shake hands with #Austin, #Derrida, #Searle, #Wittgenstein, #Nietzsche, and #Barthes on this journey – even a bout with #Pinker.

#philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #salt #justice #blog #podcast #artificialintelligence #robots #parsing

Update to ‘An Annotated Mathematician’s Apology’, with a new section on Wittgenstein’s response: https://archive.org/details/hardy_annotated (accessible #TaggedPDF, #OpenAccess)

My thanks go to Wolfgang Kienzler, professor at Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, who pointed me to Wittgenstein’s remarks, sent me notes about relevant sources, and critiqued my draft for the new section.

#GHHardy #Wittgenstein #philosophy #mathematics #MathematicalBeauty

Citing leaders as diverse as #FDR #Wittgenstein and #KingSolomon, Garry Wills reveals insights about what makes a leader and why. We review #CertainTrumpets: https://wp.me/P23AlC-fX #leadership #business

Sprache ist die Infrastruktur unseres Denkens. Je nachdem welche Begriffe wir nutzen, um über Wahrscheinlichkeitsautomation ("KI") nachzudenken, lassen wir unser Denken an unterschiedlichen Stellen enden.
#Wittgenstein

#Wittgenstein shows up, too:

1) Apparently he doodled faces while teaching and writing & occasionally used them in class. The article gives a nice example where Wittgenstein uses a doodle to parse how we detach faces from facial expressions -- "a face 'has' a particular expression" -- at least in theory.

2) His comment on the #MonaLisa: "When we speak of the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa, that may well mean that we ask ourselves: In what situation, in what story, might one smile like that?"

@aartaka
> #Wittgenstein ‘s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The stuff is super tricky

Right. So maybe someone has written an interpretation for mere mortals. I should check.

“(Perhaps) #science and #industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world - I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which #peace is the last thing that will find a home.” - Ludwig #Wittgenstein

“(Wittgenstein) urged Britton, as he urged most of his students, to avoid becoming a teacher of #philosophy. There was only one thing worse, and that was becoming a #journalist.” - #RayMonk, Ludwig #Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.

„Wir fühlen, daß selbst, wenn alle möglichen wissenschaftlichen Fragen beantwortet sind, unsere Lebensprobleme noch gar nicht berührt sind.“— Ludwig #Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus 6.5

L’apolitique comme stratégie

Aucune philosophie n’est apolitique : elle choisit toujours ce qu’elle rend visible, dicible et pensable. La prétention à la neutralité est ce qui permet à une certaine vision du monde de devenir la plus efficace politiquement. #Philosophy #Politics #Ranciere #Whitehead #Wittgenstein L’idée qu’une philosophie pourrait être apolitique est elle-même un geste politique. Elle ne supprime pas le conflit des interprétations ; elle le masque en…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/lapolitique-comme-strategie/

Hello, nerds. Welcome back to my AI writing experiment with Gemini.

We just dropped the third part of our "Disenchantment of Modern Science" series. Anyone here still holding a grudge over the "Sokal Affair"?

I was on the winning side laughing back then, but it feels like that whole drama never got a proper sequel... so I decided to give them the counter-attack they deserved!

https://raidofuwa.substack.com/p/disenchantment-of-modern-science-0d7

#Philosophy #science #QuantumMechanics #baudrillard #wittgenstein #substack

Welcome to my AI writing experiment with Gemini, a highly encouraging co-writer of mine who drives my madness up to eleven.

Some of you might dislike this article because it’s mocking "science." But hey, when the US president lies about his war preferences in public, and science magazines declare that "this entire universe is a computer simulation!", why can't we have our own fun?

https://raidofuwa.substack.com/p/disenchantment-of-modern-science-2c2

#philosophy #science #QuantumMechanics #baudrillard #Wittgenstein #Substack

I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/who-am-i?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=masto

#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher

Heidegger plays the same dodgy language games in The Essence of Truth and Being and Time.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/chess-with-heidegger?r=pvxh5

I discuss this legerdemain on Substack.

#philosophy #language #Heidegger #Wittgenstein #ontology #satire #blog #video #podcast #chess #criticaltheory

What can we say about trust and guilt? Not as much as we might think.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/guilty-as-charged?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #language #substack #blog #metaethics #ethics #epistemology #linguistics #law #legaltheory #guilt #semantics #truth #wittgenstein #speech

This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/what-is-philosophy?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency

Wittgenstein et la grammaire du sens

Wittgenstein aide à comprendre que le sens ne dépend pas seulement des faits, mais de la grammaire dans laquelle on les lit. Beaucoup de désaccords persistent parce que les interlocuteurs ne jouent pas tout à fait au même jeu de langage. #Wittgenstein #Philosophy #Language #Concepts L’apport de Wittgenstein est décisif pour penser les catégories et les disputes de sens. Il montre que les mots ne renvoient pas seulement à des objets…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/wittgenstein-et-la-grammaire-du-sens/