> Paul schreef:
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>> On 16 Feb, 06:42, Leon2 wrote:

>>> Paul schreef:> On 16 Feb, 00:29, "Paul" yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>>> I understood that LW wanted to "solve" all philosophical questions by
>>>>>> showing they are a misunderstanding of the logical structure of
>>>>>> language.

>>>>> Thus forgetting that philosophy is about more thanlanguage.-check
>>>>> out Bryan Magee's "My Philosophical Development" for an elaboration of
>>>>> this view.

>>>> ... Oops -- work brain, work -- I meant Bryan Magee's "Confessions of
>>>> a Philosopher" (though my title's better :-)

>>> It could be quite a discussion what philosophy is. Thanks for the tip.

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>> It certainly is -- I've read several introductions to philosophy and
>> several biograhies of philosophers, and this intellectual
>> autobiography is my favourite on both counts. I wouldn't say it's my
>> favourite book ever - the best works of the greatest philosophers
>> (Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, one or two others, not
>> Wittgenstein...) would have to top it, but it's certainly the best
>> lightweight/overview philosophy book I have ever read. Magee's heavier
>> book on Schopenhauer is also superb, you might like his discussion of
>> Schopenhauer's influence on Wittgenstein.

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> Im kind of into Hans Reichenbach. It seems his excellent book
> "Experience and Prediction" was somehow based on Dewey's "Experience and
> Nature". I also have to read that book. Furthermore a book of Hacking
> lies waiting to be read. "The taming of chance". As you can see I'm into
> scientific philosophy. A course I am following at the Open University
> here in the Netherlands deals with science. There the role of philosophy
> is to give a justification to the claims of validity, truth and
> certainty of knowledge. Science alone cannot give the justification.
> Because you also need a justification for the scientific methods.
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> Maybe this role for philosophy is too small. You might argue that the
> role language plays in philosophy has to be studied first. It might
> prove that most of knowledge is indeed found in language, but you have
> also objects with symbolic value. Another usenet user thought knowledge
> in f.i. a theory was nothing more than compressed information. Not that
> you know what information is. But this concept "information" goes beyond
> language. Philosophy might be seen as tool to handle information.
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> But the purpose op philosophy, as I think, as it is something of a human
> practice, lies in communication. Communication with yourself or with
> others (deliberating). And then again language plays a crucial role.
> Although it is said that 80%% of the communication is silent.