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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 Importance of Time and Space

Wittgenstein says we cannot compare any process with the passage of time in quotes. He seems to be saying that time and space are illusions. There's not atoms in the void because there's no void that we can make any sense of. It is really a matter of being unable to describe one of the two events unless there’s some sort of asymmetry.

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