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Hermeneutics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Psychologists turn to hermeneutics
Similarly to computer scientists, psychologists have recently become interested in hermeneutics, especially as alternatives to cognitivism. Hubert Dreyfus' critique of conventional artificial intelligence has been influential not only in AI but in psychology, and psychologists…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The philosophical roots of AI
Many of the concepts central to Al have their roots in the work of philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, as we have seen, and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951):
Wittgenstein and Heidegger against formal meaning
Wittgenstein, in his later philosophy, and Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) strongly reject the formalist assumption of meaning.
Pluralism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ontological pluralism
Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-games argues that there is no over-arching, single, fundamental ontology, but only a patchwork of overlapping interconnected ontologies ineluctably leading from one to another. For example, Wittgenstein discusses 'number' as technical…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing
Chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy are special fascinations with the details of our environment, but metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing. I find it almost impossible to imagine a sensitive human being bereft of metaphysical wonder, a person who does not have…
Watts on Wittgenstein: wonder is not a disease
Ludwig Wittgenstein and other modern “logical” philosophers have tried to suppress this question by saying that it has no meaning and ought not to be asked. Most philosophical problems are to be solved by getting rid of them, by coming to the point where you see that such…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Wittgenstein on the concept of game
Ludwig Wittgenstein is another thinker who can help explain why exactitude is not always possible. He saw that many words and concepts do not have precise rules for their use, and cannot have their meanings analysed in strict logical terms. Wittgenstein famously used the…
Meaning as use, with a qualification
Wittgenstein argued that meanings of words often cannot be specified in logically comprehensive terms. ‘For a large class of cases – though not for all – in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.’23…
Custard cannot be nailed to a wall
‘But is a blurred concept a concept at all?’ he imagined them objecting. ‘Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all?’ he answered. ‘Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we…