| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:history and future history: Wittgenstein as influence - |
| Posted by: | Michae Greinecker |
| Date/Time: | 25/03/2003 20:34:13 |
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I guess when you wrote that "Chomsky's revolution was based deeply on challenging the strictures insisted upon what constituted legitimate science by the Vienna Circle and their followers.", you meant his opposition to the then prevalent orthodoxy of behaviorism (sorry, I havenīt read Whispering yet). Correct me if Iīm wrong on that, please. While some members of the Vienna circle believed in strict behaviorism this stems partly from ignorance and a believe that behaviorism would be the way out of the strange metaphysics of Freudian theory. I donīt see any fundamental problem with creating mentalistic theories in the framework(s) od science created by the Vienna circle, although it was everything but a homogenous group. --- Regarding Wittgenstein I think the biggest problem is the "genius cult" around him. Wittgenstein was extremely arrogant and often dismissed other views pretty fast. "Because he is a genius", his followers tend to ignore the possibility that Wittgensten was wrong which leads to the Rohrschach test youīve described. Btw: I think the Rohrschach test metaphor is very powerful in understanding lot of discussions. |