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Is most philosophy really just wordplay being taken too seriously?

>>20549436
Mine:
>Wake up, drink water, brush teeth
>Eat grounded flax seeds with honey
>Study French for 2 hours
>Rest for 30 minutes
>Study French for 2 hours
>Rest for 30 minutes
>Forget to eat
>Do sports for 20 minutes
>Do yoga for 40 minutes
>Read fiction/philosophy/science for 3 hours
>Rest for 30 minutes
>Study German for 2 hours
>Watch a film/listen to a podcast/play vidya (I love playing competitive games, but I don't have enough free time at the moment, so I'm deciding to switch to Paradox's games or some story-driven single-player trash "games".)

How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

What books should I read beforehand to be able to understand him?

I specifically need to learn all of the logic/math symbols so where can I learn that too?

What does the word "I" refer to?

Did being gay influence his philosophy?

>>17140541
>random fucking shower thoughts threads like "Philosophy is a cope.

>>14645134
this sexy man

>>14322198
>implying wittgenstein solved philosophy
words must have a concrete definition, anon, they can't just be whatever the consensus agrees to because that changes over time.

witness: the notion of 'justice' in America over the past 300 years (esp. with regard to negroes)

>>13449150
>Would you say the Philosophical Investigations is trite and embarassing?
No.

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Värmland
Tractatus

I have been reading some language philosophy before but i am not ready for his mathematical logic and ontology.

>>10473264
>>10473560

5.1361 "The events of the future cannot be inferred from those of the present.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus."

Isn't this what Hume argued?

>>9087515
>tfw she's a foundationalist

>Debating religion with literalism or philosophy

Kill yourselves.

>>8316670
>he sets up a circular argument every time.
Mere logic my old blood.

Not even gay.

>>6091732
Even if they were different, we wouldn't be able to tell

>>5321186
Chair: Since every definition arise according to the average language user, what people call a chair is simply what the average language user can use to sit.

Tractatus:

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"

Investigations:

"Actually, there's more to it than that"

>>4992010

They just caught Vicky in a spergout moment, that's all.