somervta comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somervta 10 October 2013 05:48:47AM 3 points [-]

Philosophical Investigations is closer to the latter. (There's a big difference between Late and Early Wittgenstein - basically two completely different authors)

Comment author: Panic_Lobster 10 October 2013 05:58:21AM *  4 points [-]

There is also a fair bit of continuity between the two--he retains one of the main theses of his earlier work: that much of our confusion about so called 'philosophical problems' is caused by people abusing language.