You can find the previous chapter notes here. Wittgenstein and Turing One of the aims of this chapter, Livingston says, is to see how language is finite and infinite for Wittgenstein. It has important philosophical and critical implications for how we should understand the social, political, and technical consequences of the development and spread of […]
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You can find the previous chapter notes here. Wittgenstein and Parmenides Livingston begins with a comparison of two statements by Wittgenstein and Parmenides. Wittgenstein: “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.” Parmenides: “You could not know what is not–that cannot be done–nor indicate it.” The context of Parmenides statement is the
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My notes and comments from the first chapter of Paul Livingston’s fantastic book (so far) The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism. Wittgenstein wrote in the Philosophical Investigations that “What has to be accepted, the given, is—so one could say—forms of life.” Theories of what he means oscillate between a conventional