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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Concluding our discussion of On Certainty, with guest Chris Heath.

We try one last time to get a handle on Wittgenstein's philosophy of science. How do people actually change their minds about fundamental beliefs?

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0:00.0

Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 310 Part 2.

0:11.2

We're concluding our treatment of Wittgenstein's uncertainty still with our guest, Hey Chris,

0:17.4

and no Seth anymore.

0:20.2

He'd had enough.

0:21.2

He had other things to do.

0:23.1

Which is reasonable, of course.

0:24.7

He threw his computer into the ditch with the signbook.

0:29.4

It disappeared into the riverbed.

0:31.0

The blue and brown looks.

0:32.9

One of the things I wanted to get out of today, this distinction between the belt built

0:36.2

to the world picture and the belt and shawl, world view.

0:40.0

I feel like we have not made that clear whatsoever.

0:43.1

And maybe it's because this is a distinction from the Rutledge that is maybe made a little

0:48.9

bit in the actual Wittgenstein text, and he does not make a big deal about, I know,

0:54.5

just in introducing that.

0:56.0

But what it's supposed to be is that the world picture is mostly unarticulated.

1:01.3

This is the thing that he's concerned with with Moran propositions, I believe.

1:05.4

So maybe induction itself, the fact that nature will follow a regularity.

1:10.7

These are so unquestioned that it's hard to, well, I don't know, is this even a good

1:15.6

example?

1:16.6

Because I can picture perfectly well what a denial, what skepticism about the regularity

1:22.2

of nature is.

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