Re:A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy
by skoodge on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:40AM
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Wittgenstein was not a constructivist, though. At least in his later years he explicitly argued against any -ism as a position and tried to avoid philosophical theses as a whole. (Whether he succeeded with this undogmatic approach is another question of course, but to say that he was a constructivist would commit him to a position that he did not advocate for, even if many of his remarks can certainly be read in such a way if they are read in isolation.)
Re:A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy
by shannifin on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:55AM
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I don't get the sense that Wittenstein was suspicious of infinity as an idea / concept in itself, only of its treatment in mathematical logic. Otherwise much of his writings on it could've been far more terse.
I'm guessing constructivists have found better ways to approach infinity than Witty, without conceding that infinity is real.