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Title: Philosophical Grammar by Ludwig Wittgenstein, A. J. Kenny ISBN: 0-520-03725-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Summary: Typical philosophy
Comment: Once feature of this book that is always fascinating is that one can take any paragraph in it and generate a plethora of ideas and commentary, that might even fill volumes. This book is not unique in that regard, but in fact most books of philosophy have this characteristic. They allow the mind to go forth untamed and engage in speculations that are unconstrained by experience or laboratory experiments. Philosophical reasoning is to be distinguished therefore by its freedom to say and write what it pleases, unlike the case for scientific reasoning, which is highly constrained by observation and experiment. There are some interesting points made in this book, some of them having intersection with what is now going on in artificial intelligence, computational grammar, and linguistics. Readers can also gain insight into the school of logical atomism, which the author was of course very much a part of.
The book is organized as a collection of disjointed paragraphs, which little or no correlation between them. Many of them are quite interesting and thought-provoking, especially if read in the context of the field of artificial intelligence. It is doubtful though that any of these ideas could be refined in such a way as to make them useful in the goal of building thinking machines. They are just too loosely structured to be codified in a language that would run on a machine. Speculative ideas unfortunately are like that. The ideas in the book might perhaps though put one in a certain frame of mind that would permit more acceptance of various claims made in artificial intelligence. Conversely, it might very well increase the doubt on those claims. Such is the nature of philosophical grammar: its expressive power and rich information content permits a wide range of interpretations.
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Title: Wittgenstein Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barrett ISBN: 0520013549 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: June, 1967 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Anscombe, George H. Von Wright ISBN: 0520016351 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1976 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein ISBN: 0061312118 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 July, 1942 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein ISBN: 0061316865 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 October, 1972 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Margarete Schattle ISBN: 0520037278 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1978 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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