Please help /lit/. I think my sister has gotten interested in analytic philosophy. How do stop her from going down the wrong path?
>>8221751
Tell her that analytic philosophers are merely LARP'ing as mathematicians/physicists, because they are too stupid for the latter two subjects.
Get her to start with Frege and then be really sneaky and slip some Cohen and Natorp in there. Then tie her up and punch her in the tits over and over again until she understands what intentionality means and starts saying "always already" when describing epistemological stances or semantic content. When you think she's ready, show her some Quine. If she starts making pained faces and asking for something a little less discursively naive, let her go. If not, you're gonna have to start breaking fingers.
>>8221751
B her TFO with your superior continental strain, obviously.
>>8221751
Make her aware that Wittgenstein addressed analytic concerns without any of the bullshit faux-mathematics.
>>8221782
Isn't the tractatus full of formal logic?
>>8221807
Yes, but it makes sense.
Nothing like OP's pic, which is the mathematical equivalent of Hegelian's elaborate yet specious writing.
http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-6_1/v6-1-Singer-cavalieri.html
>Since arguments in the Continental tradition are stated differently than in analytic moral philosophy, before replying to Žižek’s criticisms, we shall summarize the main steps in his discussion, in order to be able to develop some preliminary considerations and then to reply to them.
>II. Žižek’s argument
>III. Some Misunderstandings
>IV. Some Non-sequiturs
I don't even have a vagina and I still feel like my genitals are drying.
>>8221890
Let her get somewhat interested in it and then make her read Witty's Philosophical Investigations. Not joking. Later Wittgenstein does a great job undermining the tropes of thinking typical of analytic philosophy, but only once you've internalized those tropes.
>>8221782
agreed for Wittgenstein being the only cool analytical philosopher.
>>8222139
That might work. Thanks! Is ordinary language philosophy that much better though?
>>8221766
Quine is great though
Get her to a doctor so she can be diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum. Hopefully from there she will decide to be an engineer.
>muh math and natural sciences
>doesn't do math and natural science
if you're going to do philosophy do continental. it'll all be outdated in 100 years so at least write something that attempts to stand on its own.
>>8222149
I wouldn't really call later Wittgenstein ordinary language philosophy. He's doing something much more profound and critical-deflationary with respect to analytic philosophy than the likes of Austin or Ryle.
According to my old prof, who talked to von Wright, Wittgenstein "wanted to destroy philosophy. All of it!" Obviously his method involves attending to how the relevant linguistic practices actually proceed in real-life discourse, but only inasmuch as that can help us to avoid the mistakes we made when we started to philosophize on the relevant issues, and not as a philosophical end in itself. If we can see where the decisive move in the conjuring trick is, which we had thought to be innocent, we might be able to avoid it. (But that might mean giving up philosophy altogether, which makes Wittgenstein hard to live up to.)
Tell her that if she wants to learn science and math she should study them instead. That way she would be able to make a lasting improvent in knowledge, instead of doing a lot of neo-scholastic navel gazing.
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>>8221831
OP's pic makes perfect sense, those are semantic clauses that give truth conditional contributions of sentential operators in a tense logic.
>>8221831
Only because you are too stupid to understand it doesn't make it wrong.
Is a course on analytic philosophy worth taking? It's for my philosophy specialist. I have no background in it but from /lit/ I gather it's not liked.
>>8223261
Never listen to /lit/ when it comes to philosophy. I'd wager that 90% of the people here who have read philosophy have only bothered with aphorisms of Nietzsche/Schopenhauer/Heraclitus because it requires the least amount of thought possible. Take the course
>>8222511
>a logic
>right/wrong
>>8221751
Let her be, it'll only strengthen her continentalism in the end, once she finally realizes the true way to knowledge.
>>8223880
>the true way to knowledge
do tell
>>8224291
2nded
>>8223261
What's a philosophy specialist?
>>8222511
the same can be said about Derrida, yet, anautistic fags keep saying it's gobbledygook
>>8225492
a lot of colleges now let you take various types of degrees, like a Dual Major, or a Major/Minor, or a Major + Two Minors
a Specialist is like a souped-up Major. a Major usually forces you to take something like 30-50% of your credits in the chosen subject, but you have to take the rest in your minors, and in general education credits (like mandatory science courses for humanities majors or vice versa, so you'll be well-rounded). a Specialist allows/requires you do even more (say, 60%) in your chosen field.
>>8225533
Then it's scary that someone doing that would ask /lit/ analytic philosophy is worthwhile.
>>8225542
*ask /lit/ if
>>8221751
You let her figure it out herself. All in all that will be a much more enriching experience. But if you wanted, you could talk to her and apply your oh so great understanding, since you clearly don't need us to tell you how to rationalize your beliefs.
>>8225618
It's not about belief it's about not letting her waste her life.
>>8225632
If you're so confident it's a waste of her life you should be capable of explaining to her why you think this. Pay attention.
>>8225637
It's hard to explain things that are self evident.
>>8225685
Good job dipshit.
>>8225690
Thanks.
