{"id":1744,"date":"2023-03-09T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:10:46","slug":"in-which-i-am-almost-wittgenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/03\/09\/in-which-i-am-almost-wittgenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am almost Wittgenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am teaching pragmatism this semester, and we are just getting to Quine. So I had cause to open my old file cabinet and take out the hanging file full of Quine related notes and articles.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1744' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/03\/09\/in-which-i-am-almost-wittgenstein\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1744' title=' Most are from when I was a graduate student. The fact that I have such a cabinet at all identifies me as an old.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> In it was a scrap of paper, ripped from the corner of the program for a non-philosophical event I attended. I had scribbled in the corner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Consider the difference b\/n &#8216;p does not mean q&#8217; if p and q are or are not homophones\u2014 correcting usage vs. discussing a language<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers familiar with Quine can probably reconstruct what I had in mind, but whatever. Imagine this zettel joined with a hundred others like it, passed around as grainy scans and acquiring a moniker like <em>The Taupe Book<\/em>.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1744' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/03\/09\/in-which-i-am-almost-wittgenstein\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1744' title=' In addition to all the scraps from Wittgenstein that are collected together under various descriptive titles, there is even a volume published under the title &lt;em&gt;Zettel&lt;\/em&gt;.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am teaching pragmatism this semester, and we are just getting to Quine. So I had cause to open my old file cabinet and take out the hanging file full of Quine related notes and articles. In it was a scrap of paper, ripped from the corner of the program for a non-philosophical event I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/03\/09\/in-which-i-am-almost-wittgenstein\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which I am almost Wittgenstein&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-zettel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-s8","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}