LARKIN:
Spring 2003
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DATE: 3-03-03
I.
Objectives
A.
Answer
any questions on midterm material
B.
Understand
Wittgenstein’s Project and How he influenced Logical Positivists
C.
Discuss
Wittgenstein’s ‘Mysticism’
II.
Discussion
Worries about midterm?
III.
Lecture:
A.
Wittgenstein’s
Transcendental Argument
What can be said phase:
P1: We do
represent the world in meaningful propositions and thoughts.
P2: Representation
requires isomorphism of logico-pictorial form.
C1: Meaningful
propositions are isomorphic with the logico-pictorial form of reality.
Can be said clearly phase
P3: The
language of modern logic most clearly reveals logico-pictorial structure.
C2:
Meaningful propositions can be translated into modern logic.
B.
Implications
1.
We
can get at the basic structure of reality by analyzing propositions into their
logical form.
2.
Whatever
cannot be translated into modern logic is meaningless.
C.
The
Function of Philosophy
IV.
Discussion:
Wittgenstein’s Mysticism?
V.
Next
Time
A.
Topic:
Logical Positivism
B.
Reading: Ayer, “The Elimination of Metaphysics”
C.
Reading Questions: See Next
Lecture Skeleton