
Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
Philosophy Bites
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What Is the Point of Philosophy?
He began as a student of engineering, came to England before the First World War to study with Bertrand Russell. What was mathematics about? What made mathematical statements true? We don't doubt that tune twos for but when we arrive at these truths, these undoubtable truths, what's their subject matter? All our thinking, if it's in good order, is logically correct thinking. But what are the truths of logic's truths off? One gives us some grip on the idea that there's something that's logically right and logically wrong.
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