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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 Problem With Verificationism

When he starts talking about the world as being composed of facts, he's no longer just talking about language and that's where he gets into metaphysics. You can never prove verificationism or even inductively proven, deductively or inductively. It would have to be the truth functionality of verificationism would depend upon a bunch of facts. And I think that's the way verificationism is itself supposed to show up. Now that I have an interpretation of all the stuff that comes before, I'm really kind of interested to go and look at this stuff about ethics and, you know, the transcendental and so on because I, in the context now of what he's saying, it makes

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