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  • The draft thread.
    You are over analysing it.
  • The draft thread.
    You are welcome! *Smiles*
  • The draft thread.
    Thanks for your replies, and insights.
    I have read a good proportion of witty's
    Philosophy and, as many people might agree, his views on language, weren't very revealing of his religious views, - we do not even know if he really believed philosophy could be theological anymore. from what I could understand, his take on language and meaning in philosophical investigations can be said to be a form of therapy, in his words , it is addressed as a relief procedure for people/including himself who seemed to suffering from some sort from of "mental cramp". This was heroic of him, I mean, we all know how often we tend to shift from belief to disbelief, one stance on existence to another, one mental state to another ,so on and so forth. he was being pretty self critical of himself, indifferent to all those great philosopher-s before him, reduced philosophy to language analysis. What was more heroic, was that he wished to make people revise their perspectives, like for example, his nominalist perspective could help with the elimination of ontologies, which he would have called teleological fallacies , "The world is everything, that is the case", opinions aren't facts , meaning is use etc. These types of descriptions (if you have read the entire philosophical investigations) may in some cases said to be divine interpretations as they are logically sound and rare, judging everything - as universals.
  • Have you ever been suspended in dread?
    What a dumb question. Yes.
  • TPF Quote Cabinet
    The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

    The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

    Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

    If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

    If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

    The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

    - Selected quotes of Wittgenstein.

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