Reading notes: Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Two lines I keep coming back to: on writing that provokes thought, and on formulating a problem correctly.
Notes collected while reading Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and a commentary on it.
On writing
From Wittgenstein's own preface:
I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.
On formulating the problem
From Michael O'Sullivan's An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Macat Library, CRC Press, 2017), on how Wittgenstein works:
He believes the best way to solve a problem is to formulate it correctly.
A reminder that much of the difficulty in a problem lives in how it is posed, not only in how it is solved.
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