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Wittgenstein - one against meaninglessness

5 January, 2022

Why logic fails when analyzing the language and why go from Cambridge to the USSR.


The second part of our podcast is about the cult philosopher of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Guest - philosopher Yulia Chugainova
Presenter - Anton Kuznetsov

Timecode:

00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the analysis of practice
05:18 - Language is not calculus, it's a game
06:28 - If language is a game, then everything in it is relative?
09:40 - Wittgenstein's Mysticism
11:05 - Wittgenstein's Ethics
13:08 - Wittgenstein's Poker
16:02 - Wittgenstein's trip to the USSR
17:26 - Meeting with Sofia Yanovskaya
19:50 - Turing's probable meeting with Wittgenstein?
24:22 - About reliability
28:30 - The problem with the publication of Wittgenstein's later works
31:18 - Genius or not? When being a Genius is harmful
35:50 - Summary from Mary

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