I. tacet

Jan 15, 2009

It would be an interesting exercise to tally up, on the one hand, muddles resolved by Wittgenstein, and, on the other hand, muddles engendered by him.

This claim is brought to you by these sentences from "Are Meaning, Understanding, etc., Definite States?": But it is now clear that we have a different way of picturing the state of mind that we can after all say the words describe. We can see the state of mind of wanting N to come as no more than what is correctly attributed by moves in a language-game that we know how to play. But what is attributed by those moves?