NP Witt List (was something Pynchon-related at some point, maybe)

[davemarc]

> From: andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
> 
> Peter Giordano writes:
> 
> > But wouldn't Wittgenstein say that the rocks and soil and fawna were
> > always there but the concept: America, New World, etc. was invented?
> 
> No, he wouldn't (despite strenuous efforts on the part of a few of his
> early exponents to assure people that he would). What has always been
> there is not rocks and is not soil and is not fauna. What is there is
> rocks and soil and fauna because (and only in so far as) we recognise
> it as such. It's all to do with recognition, not being. You might
> perhaps read Gaddis on the same subject, or the Dharma.
> 
Gotta disagree with Andrew here.  Maybe--just maybe--LW would've said that
sort of thing in the Tractatus, but by the time of Philosophical
Investigations I think he'd recognize *both* the sense of Peter's
proposition and the sense of Andrew's.

davemarc