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September 13, 2005
Cute Fact of the Day
"In the original German, the last and culminating tantalising-mystical proposition [of Wittgenstein's Tractatus] can, as is well-known, be sung to the tune of Good King Wenceslas. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen." (p.10 of Gellner's Words and Things)
This is good news, as the original lyrics cannot.
UPDATE 17.22, 13/9/05: Everyone's reading this book. No wait, every Kieran is reading this book.
Posted by logican at September 13, 2005 03:44 PM
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Posted by: x at September 16, 2005 01:14 AM
Can you translate the sentence 'every kieran is reading this book' into the language of predicate logic? No (if 'kieran' is not a predicate). Hence, a "hempel-minded" (for definition, please see philosophical lexicon) may conclude that it is non-sense!
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Posted by: erhan at September 16, 2005 11:00 AM