@SpukiKitty
'I'm an idiot, therefore I'll throw in the name of some funky post-modern philiosopher with a colorful name in order to sound 'smart' despite the fact I have no idea who he is'. - stupidsusie
"Frankly, I have no idea who this Wittgenstein guy is, either...and I AM smart!" - SpukiKitty"
Hey, just over a decade ago, I knew almost nothing about computers until someone gave me an old 486 laptop; I tinkered around with it, got books from the library, read magazines; with subsequent 'puters I started to learn the enigmatic workings of such (CPUs, HDs, RAM, optical drives etc), until I essentially became self-taught. Nowadays I work in a computer shop, repairing, upgrading, and even building bespoke setups; it's a hobby I get paid to do, no less!
The most I knew about Wittgenstein was from Monty Python's 'Bruces Philosophers Song':
(*sings*):
'Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And René Descartes was a drunken fart:
'I drink, therefore I am'!
Yes, Socrates himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed!'
X3
All it takes is a little research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
...et voila - instant enlightenment!
Unlike savagesusie - at least we're prepared to admit we don't know about something/someone; after all, saying 'I don't know' is the beginning of wisdom.
It's almost as if the likes of savagesusie here are proud of their ignorance!?
