I’ll let professional philosophers try to peel apart every nuance of the Investigations. It is a thoroughly enjoyable and approachable—if not chaotich—book for anyone used to reading academic papers in CS, math, or linguistics. The topic is deeply scrutinizing our everyday language, especially language about mental states. He is a very persuasive and poetic writer. Some excerpts:
- To utter a word is to strike a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
359. Could a machine think? ... Well is the human body to be considered such a machine? It surely comes as close as possible to being such a machine.
583. ... And the word “hope” refers to a phenomenon of human life. (A smiling mouth smiles only in a human face.)
- To utter a word is to strike a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
359. Could a machine think? ... Well is the human body to be considered such a machine? It surely comes as close as possible to being such a machine.
583. ... And the word “hope” refers to a phenomenon of human life. (A smiling mouth smiles only in a human face.)