G'day All
Over the next few days, I am going to start posting some of the questions from this morning's class.
I may edit them slightly either for grammar or to make them clearer as people who weren't present in class may want to comment. If I've completely missed your point, please scream out at me.
Okay here we go:
1). What is a 'word' according to Wittgenstein?
2). In rejecting Augustinian realism about language does Wittgenstein offer a kind of linguistic idealism which ultimately leads to solipsism?
3). Isn't memory a pre-condition for language rather than the other way around?
4) How does Augustine's theory (and by implications presumably the TLP) account for words that don't refer to objects e.g 'this, that, prepositions'?
5). How is the primitve language of the builders a 'language game'. Isn't the process of naming objects a way of setting up the game in the first place?
Feel free to comment and it would be great to hear from some commentators other than the usual suspects, although we're always happy to hear from the usual suspects too.
R
