2 Heidegger Books on Language
“pre-draft before reading”
One of my birthday presents was that I was allowed to pick out any books I wanted from a bookstore.
Given by current obsession over language I wanted to grab something form Wittgenstein, but he was nowhere to be found. So I had to settle with Heidegger.
The only problem I have with Heidegger is that most translations have too much flourish; which might just be a failure of the English language. That isn’t a problem cause I’m still interested to see what is in those books and what connections I can make between the two thinkers.
Maybe it is a bit perjorous to say, but from a 21st century standpoint, they were discussing topics we have a “clearer” understanding on1.
What is “thinking”
“Thinking is not having an opinion… not representing or having an idea of a state of affiars (early Wittegenstein)… not racio-nation logic (Piercian deductive/inductive/abductive… not simply critical thinking)”
The ability to distinguish between “sense” and “nonsense” has been a long-standing aim in philosophy. There have been discussions on a metaphysical level from “realism” to “anti-realism”, on a logical level in the different kinds of “formal logc”, on a epistemological level in the form of “empiricism” or “positivism” which circles back to metaphysical claims, and lastly rests upon the linuigistic layer2.