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Single Idea 18712
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
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Full Idea
Understanding is really translation, whether into other symbols or into action.
Gist of Idea
Understanding is translation, into action or into other symbols
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Lectures 1930-32 (student notes) [1931], B I.5)
Book Ref
Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Lectures in Cambridge 1930-32', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Blackwell 1980], p.24
A Reaction
The second part of this sounds like pure pragmatism. To do is to understand? I doubt it. Do animals understand anything?
The
35 ideas
from 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)'
18704
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Philosophy tries to be rid of certain intellectual puzzles, irrelevant to daily life
[Wittgenstein]
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18706
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Words of the same kind can be substituted in a proposition without producing nonsense
[Wittgenstein]
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18705
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Words function only in propositions, like levers in a machine
[Wittgenstein]
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18707
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All thought has the logical form of reality
[Wittgenstein]
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18708
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Infinity is not a number, so doesn't say how many; it is the property of a law
[Wittgenstein]
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18709
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Laws of logic are like laws of chess - if you change them, it's just a different game
[Wittgenstein]
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18727
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A person's name doesn't mean their body; bodies don't sit down, and their existence can be denied
[Wittgenstein]
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18710
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Philosophers express puzzlement, but don't clearly state the puzzle
[Wittgenstein]
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18711
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A proposition is any expression which can be significantly negated
[Wittgenstein]
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18712
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Understanding is translation, into action or into other symbols
[Wittgenstein]
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18713
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If an explanation is good, the symbol is used properly in the future
[Wittgenstein]
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18719
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Grammar says that saying 'sound is red' is not false, but nonsense
[Wittgenstein]
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18714
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We already know what we want to know, and analysis gives us no new facts
[Wittgenstein]
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18715
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Using 'green' is a commitment to future usage of 'green'
[Wittgenstein]
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18716
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A machine strikes us as being a rule of movement
[Wittgenstein]
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18717
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Thought is an activity which we perform by the expression of it
[Wittgenstein]
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18718
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Saying 'and' has meaning is just saying it works in a sentence
[Wittgenstein]
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18720
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Explanation gives understanding by revealing the full multiplicity of the thing
[Wittgenstein]
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18721
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Explanation and understanding are the same
[Wittgenstein]
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18723
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We may correctly use 'not' without making the rule explicit
[Wittgenstein]
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18724
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In logic nothing is hidden
[Wittgenstein]
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18725
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A proposition draws a line around the facts which agree with it
[Wittgenstein]
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18726
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For each necessity in the world there is an arbitrary rule of language
[Wittgenstein]
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18728
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The meaning of a proposition is the mode of its verification
[Wittgenstein]
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18729
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Part of what we mean by stating the facts is the way we tend to experience them
[Wittgenstein]
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18730
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The history of philosophy only matters if the subject is a choice between rival theories
[Wittgenstein]
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18732
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We don't need a theory of truth, because we use the word perfectly well
[Wittgenstein]
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18731
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There is no theory of truth, because it isn't a concept
[Wittgenstein]
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18733
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Laws of nature are an aspect of the phenomena, and are just our mode of description
[Wittgenstein]
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18734
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If you remember wrongly, then there must be some other criterion than your remembering
[Wittgenstein]
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18735
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Talking nonsense is not following the rules
[Wittgenstein]
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18736
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Contradiction is between two rules, not between rule and reality
[Wittgenstein]
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18737
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There are no positive or negative facts; these are just the forms of propositions
[Wittgenstein]
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18738
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We don't get 'nearer' to something by adding decimals to 1.1412... (root-2)
[Wittgenstein]
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18280
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We live in sense-data, but talk about physical objects
[Wittgenstein]
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