Saturday, November 28, 2020
Wittgenstein Vindicated
Clive James (1939-2019), "Ludwig Wittgenstein," Cultural Amnesia (2007; rpt. London: Picador, 2012), pp. 801-807 (at 803):
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Wittgenstein's requirement that we should not be seduced by language is understandable in the context of the rich second phase of his philosophy, whose aim we can find summed up for him on his brass plate in Trinity College chapel in Cambridge: 'Rationem ex vinculis orationis vindicam esse.' (Reason must be released from the chains of speech.)For vindicam read vindicandam.
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