Wittgenstein
Presentation Charles
Tractatus and Investigations are the same project. The transition between the two is
Wittgenstein’s house for his sister.
Tractatus / Investigations
names-objects / words-uses
pictures / instruments (images, concepts, descriptions )
forms of object / forms of life
The numbered structure of the text becomes a series of chains – flow.
Language games are embedded in everyday life.
The USE of the objects becomes central:
Door knobs – architecture as gesture, not as a thought. Knob as an action/movement
objects. Movement of the knob, movement of the hand.
Mechanism has to work, to function – one HAS TO open, close the door.
Living and dwelling … breath first, thought second
Presentation Pal
Language games examined through basic programming. Subroutines are functions of the
word.
Where is pointing? Naming? In the program? Through language we understand?
Naming happens … one = “1”
The pointing-to is the understanding – there is perception involved and action in relation
to the named object. Programming is not perceiving.
Embedding the circle – perception and understanding.
The pillow is easy to understand.
But the meaning of the pillow changes through different cultural values, and can have
different uses in different cultures. The exchange system – what is the sense value of the
object. (Harry)
M-Ponty: Not analytic. Language as a center of the philosophy. What words make you
do? (Alex)
AI - We are reducing the ways we think in order to construct the intelligence (Pal)
Importance of the door handles – function and action, bodily satisfaction which is deeper
(Flower)
Knowing exactly how much to turn the knob… Words are used in the same way as the
knobs are. (Charles)
Imitation of action (Harry)
M-Ponty opens the door to phenomenology. The logical project, positivistic approach.
Pointing is ambiguous. By looking and listening …
Correspondence – what does a chair mean? What happens when the object disappears?
Philosophical Investigations N. 80 – what happens to color for blind people??? Signifier
signifies. Tools modify other objects: but modify and signify are not specified.
“quote”, then “game”, then “Set of notions (game)”
Families of the game – there is no definition of the game. Philosophical movement
toward the language – philosophical procedure is taken apart. (Xin Wei)
The form of the book – the aspect is pointing. The language is pointing, it is a
correspondence to the reality. Complexity of language, it is all this things.
Conceptual art is pointing. Pat Perdue, Dante Guido, Patick Nidorf.
Demonstrative pronoun is super key: this, this, this … this, this, th…
Suburb language of the logic is needed to understand this book. Didactic book, but needs
previous knowledge.
13 century – individuation, singularity, unity is this – singularity cause … Singularity not
in the essences (Libnitz) , but in pointing.
Philosophical Investigations N. 38 the vagueness of “this” is the key.
Philosophical Investigations N. 88. Inexact is exactly what we need…
“This” is the event of particularity. Not as the word, but as an act – “pointing”.
“this” is an action, not the word. This becomes linguistic after the action. The necessity
that needs to be there to be relation.
Pointing = thisness
Philosophical Investigations N. 88 Concept and vagueness – blurry concepts. Maybe
cleanness is not necessary for the concept.
Rigorous notions which are not determinant … Concepts are extendable.
Thisness – illusions about language. Meaning comes through use. (Charles)
N. 38. situational thisness – Positive vagueness Example of the table. (Flower)
Rules: or mistakes. Even integers are not ideal – 5 table legs are different from 5 foot
long table leg. (Xin Wei)
M-Ponty - Language in terms of gesture. Categorization of the person through action or
behaviour. (Alex)
Philosophical Investigations N. 363. What does it mean for instruments to tell? (Xin Wei)
Epoche is not solipsism. The world is there. The bracketing within the world that is
given, and we are within. Excludes the world which is simply there. Thisness is also
bracketing. (Charles)
Contrast with the rest of the world. Something that is bracketed is in the contrast with the
outside. (Alex)
Guattari : the mode of individualization different. The movement of the coordinates in
space time, lines, not origin or destination. Language games (plural!)
Quantitative time Chronos .. Qualitative time of potentiality is similar to the idea of
haecceity. (Alex)
The notion of the private language (Xin Wei)
It is interesting in relation to Subjectivity and Intention. What does one means? (Alex)
Rule following. We cannot relay on sensor coherence. Affective Pre-behaviouralism
(Skiner?) Notion of primitive objects and the anthology.
Activity Network Theory - Latour – agents or actents are primitive objects. Akrish
Actens and social relations. (primitive= actents) Artificial Intelligence Ontology (body,
organs, cells, basic elements, primitive=cell) (Xin Wei)
Deleuze in “Difference and Repetition” : Positive difference that preexists the objects.
Wittgenstein is smarter then that. He is not choosing one over the other. (Alex)