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From: kovsky@netcom.com (Bob Kovsky)
Subject: Re: Longley has all the answers
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 05:38:55 GMT
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In article <hatunenDGDIFE.587@netcom.com>,
>In article <kovskyDGDGzt.DoF@netcom.com>, Bob Kovsky <kovsky@netcom.com> wrote:
I wrote:

>>Wittgenstein said it best:  "What can be said at all can be said clearly; 
>>and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent."
>>
>>He said this all <before> he - uh - changed his mind.

DaveHatunen <hatunen@netcom.com> asked:

>
>Did he change his mind about this? Did he decide one should speak up
>when one has nothing to say?

	He concluded that it was not possible to reduce statements about
reality to combinations of elementary propositions, that people who 
claimed that they could were playing meaningless games, that important 
things could not be said clearly, and that one can and should speak even 
when clarity is as not possible.  In other words, that the kind of 
program Mr. Longley proposes is delusional.

