Ludwig Wittgenstein
Findlay was first a follower, and then an outspoken critic, of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He denounced his three theories of meaning, arguing against the idea of Use, prominent in Wittgenstein's later period and in his followers, that it is insufficient for an analysis of meaning without such notions as connotation and denotation, implication, syntax and most originally, pre-existent meanings, in the mind or the external world, that determine linguistic ones, such as Husserl has evoked. Findlay credits Wittgenstein with great formal, aesthetic and literary appeal, and of directing well-deserved attention to Semantics and its difficulties.
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“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“When one is frightened of the truth ... then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)