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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 Nonsensical Question of Life

I'm a Buddhist man. I'm just gonna become a Buddhist. Problem is clearly not a question to be answered. If I don't turn the 6.4 section into some kind of poem that then I can post on my wall here, I may use it as a basis for some kind of transformative new religion. The same reason I asked earlier whether God could lift a stone heavier than he could lift. It's funnier that way. Now when you're starting with a cult, do you start with just a couple people to test it out? Or is there a minimum number of people who's peer pressure against each other, creates the cult so you need to start with a minimum of

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