Clarity comments on Rationality Quotes Thread November 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wizard 05 November 2015 01:51:07PM *  2 points [-]

The world is all that is the case.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Comment author: Clarity 06 November 2015 11:23:02AM *  0 points [-]

I had totally forget about the Tractus! When I read the Tractus (yes...there was a time) I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. This was awhile I had very poor coping with both psychotic and OCD type symptoms so I remember reading sections of it over and over again, having all kinds of grandiose ideas and going on rants to strangers on the internet about things I was trying to understand, devoid of context... thinking the Vienna circle had figured it all out. Haha. I hope I can look back on today in the future and see a bit of a loon in me now too, a sign that I've matured. Then one day I decided to read a bit of Witties later works where he lost his former writing style. I couldn't get through it. I read reviews that said he denounced basically the entirety of the Tractus. In retrospect, the tractus really is amazing, from a certain perspective, but not from most of them...