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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 Metaphysical Proposition of Everything Is Water

Wittgenstein's argument against making universal claims is the foundation of system building. He was saying that as ambitious or as absurd as those... Let's read the actual quote. "We are not able to deduce any proposition asserting any perceptions ... whatever which may be expected for the future" 'I get as angry about this stuff as I do about relativism,' he says.

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