Tonight’s subject is philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I’d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy–logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy–but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him pretty intensely for a year or so in college, I still have trouble wrapping my brain around a lot of his ideas.
I’d say I’m marginally better at drawing than understanding Wittgenstein:
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