“What we do is to bring words back from thier metaphysical to their normal use in language. The man wh0 said that one cannot step twice into the same river, uttered a falsehood. One can step twice into the same river.”
We spent nearly an hour in class the other day arguing over whether Wittgenstein was right to say this of Heraclitus.
April 15, 2007 at 9:17 pm |
So what was the conclusion?
April 16, 2007 at 7:56 pm |
I was basically the lone hold-out insisting that the “later” Wittgenstein is hostile to metaphysics–hence his comment on Heraclitus.