Wiggy's Tractatus logico-philisophicus: some thoughts

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Albert Einstein in the tradition following Enlightenment thinkers

INVENTED the relation 'relativity' between space (position) and time

(as decription of 'change'). It was very convenient for him to DEFINE

space as circular and to see lightspeed as absolute speed. That

resulted in 'Science Fiction' like 'Big Bang' and 'Time Travel'.

Change doesn't 'need' Time, and seeing lightspeed as limit and

explain energy only with mass is looking at 'light'

wearing 'rational' sunglasses. Evolution IS Change

Abstract thought like rationalism can be seen as Mind Terrorism.

 

Since Enlightenment the most fierce fighter of rational thought was

Friedrich Nietzsche

He might in this period be seen as the only a really great Western

World thinker.

Wittgenstein wrote: The goal of philosophy is logical explanation of

thoughts. A philosophical work consists of explanations. The result

of philosophy is not the writing of 'philosophical' sentences, but

the 'enlightenment' of the subject in question. Philosophy should

sharply explain thoughts, that remain otherwise hidden and unclear.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus (1933) on page 32. I'll try to live up

his expectations.

 

Enlightenment started in the Western World the dualist thinking in

terms of body and soul (a fantasy dating from the ancient Greek).

This rather weird fantasy was made into the logic of rational

thinking. 'Rational Thought' then in the Roman Christian World was

promoted into semi-absolute ethics.

This deviant from unity of body and brain found EVERYWHERE outside

the Western World. World History shows that Zoroastrian Christianity

(the origininal message of Jesus) didn't distinguish body and mind.

Only Mohammedanism was based on Roman Christian thinking as found in

Syrian monasteries.

 

As logic the Tractatus gives a clear message: Language is a

TRANSLATION of truth, and in itself contains no truth. Nor does

language change truth. Any truth is possible and can have many

languages.

 

1. A mind-world is a logical space containing only statements or

propositions. All these statements are based on independent basic

statements.

 

2. Every mind-world can split into two or more adjacent mind-worlds

around any of its statements.

 

3. A statement (in any language) is only meaningful for members of

some mind-worlds, as a comprehensible mix of adjectives and nouns fit

together by verbs.

 

4.Every statement can be denied

 

5.The totality of statements in some mind-world is called language

 

6. Humans can construct languages capable of expressing every

statement.

 

7.A society or super-culture is a group of mind-worlds in which

people agree on a set of basic statements (basic commandments or

basic constitution).

 

8.Two adjacent societies can be joined, by agreeing upon a bargaining-

language and then on changing the definition of basic words in the

two basic constitutions in that language (slightly changing the

meaning in order to reach consensus).

 

9. All real philosophy is 'critique of language', and is aiming at

combining two or more closely related societies.

 

10. " What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence "

(Wittgenstein)