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== What is | == What is the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project? == | ||
The LWP is a <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content free culture]</span> project which aims to make Wittgenstein’s | The LWP is a <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content free culture]</span> project which aims to make Wittgenstein’s writings that have previously appeared as books available online, in the original language and in translation, free of charge and with a free license. A short video introduction to the project is available: | ||
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== What does the logo represent? == | == What does the logo represent? == | ||
The beetle in the hexagon, i.e. the bug in the box, is a reference to [[Philosophische Untersuchungen#293|paragraph 293 of the ''Philosophical Investigations'']] (quoted below in G.E.M Anscombe 1953 translation, revised 1958), where Wittgenstein uses a vivid example to discuss the grammar of the expression of experiences: | The beetle in the hexagon, i.e. the bug in the box, is a reference to [[Philosophische Untersuchungen#293|paragraph 293 of the ''Philosophical Investigations'']] (quoted below in G.E.M Anscombe's 1953 translation, revised 1958), where Wittgenstein uses a vivid example to discuss the grammar of the expression of experiences: | ||
<blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid #eeeeee; padding: 0 0 0 2em;>''Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a "beetle". No one can look into anyone else's box, and everyone says he knows what a beetle is only by looking at ''his'' beetle.—Here it would be quite possible for everyone to have something different in his box. One might even imagine such a thing constantly changing.—But suppose the word "beetle" had a use in these people's language?—If so it would not be used as the name of a thing. The thing in the box has no place in the language-game at all [...].''</blockquote> | <blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid #eeeeee; padding: 0 0 0 2em;>''Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a "beetle". No one can look into anyone else's box, and everyone says he knows what a beetle is only by looking at ''his'' beetle.—Here it would be quite possible for everyone to have something different in his box. One might even imagine such a thing constantly changing.—But suppose the word "beetle" had a use in these people's language?—If so it would not be used as the name of a thing. The thing in the box has no place in the language-game at all [...].''</blockquote> | ||
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== I can’t find the text I’m looking for. Why is that? == | == I can’t find the text I’m looking for. Why is that? == | ||
Not all of Wittgenstein’s texts are available on this website. If you can’t find the text you are looking for, this may be for two reasons: so far, we didn’t have the time and resources to digitise it and put it online; or it may not be out of copyright because of the editing process it underwent (for more information, see the essay [[Why are some of Wittgenstein’s texts missing from this website?]]). In the first case, it might be a matter of a very short time before the text is published on this website; in the latter, a long time might have to go by before we achieve a greater degree of certainty about a specific work’s copyright status or the work eventually enters the public domain. | Not all of Wittgenstein’s texts are available on this website. If you can’t find the text you are looking for, this may be for one of two reasons: so far, we didn’t have the time and resources to digitise it and put it online; or it may not be out of copyright because of the editing process it underwent (for more information, see the essay [[Why are some of Wittgenstein’s texts missing from this website?]]). In the first case, it might be a matter of a very short time before the text is published on this website; in the latter, a long time might have to go by before we achieve a greater degree of certainty about a specific work’s copyright status or the work eventually enters the public domain. | ||