Re: OT: Who said it?

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Oh, OP and I knew that; we just wanted to parade.
 As to what Ludwig was actually saying, well, there are
interpretations. One is yours. A more usual one is that if it
*can't* be clearly expressed then there isn't anything to express. 
This is the strand of early Wittgenstein that got taken up by the
logical postivists (the Vienna circle crowd).



On Sep 8, at 5:15 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> David Auerbach wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Flash wrote:
> > > ≪To express my feelings adequately, I should have to use the
> > > kind of language I don't use.≫
> > > Patricia, have you been dabbling in Wittgenstein? ("Whereof we
> > > cannot speak, thereof we must be silent.")
> > Some philosopher (maybe Fodor) added: "and you can't whistle it
> > either."
> Yes but weren't they talking about not being able to speak in the
> sense of not knowing, or not knowing or understanding something
> sufficiently, to say anything worth saying? Whereas I was simply
> caught between furious indignation and my convent-school upbringing
> that says ladies don't use words like that.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx


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