Posted by zeugma on September 17, 2004, at 20:21:22
In reply to Isn't it funny..., posted by alexandra_k on September 17, 2004, at 19:13:43
the use of the expression "I know" to circumstances of normal linguistic exchange.
-Wittgenstein, On Certainty.
But what if I say "I know" what Wittgenstein meant by his comment about cake and raisins; that for instance he is pointing to a distinction between part and whole? When does thinking about parts and wholes become philosophical? when it becomes possible to generate paradoxes about them?
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