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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Law of Gravity

Mark O'Mara: Law of gravity is a great example because it sounds like what Vickin Schneider is saying. He's just saying the law of gravity as a proposition does not correspond in any way with logical form to the world. So too the fact that the world can be described by Newtonian mechanics asserts nothing about the world but this asserts something, namely that it can be described in which as a matter of fact it is described. That was meant to be illuminating. It's crazy. Well, if you go along with this, it makes it interesting how science would be achieved.

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