What’s in a name – ‘Oxford’, ‘Cambridge’, ‘Harvard’? Quite a bit one might say if these are the names under consideration.
The names of famous universities lay down tracks in front a person so that all he need do is follow the rails to predetermined success and achievement. That might be a conception answering our question. Yet, a student of a famous school still needs to sit down and do the required work. And the success of this task is not given by a mere name. Someone once said: ‘Destiny must be achieved’. I am inclined to agree.
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July 9, 2009 at 3:39 am
John O'Connor
What is in a name? Nothing. That is what Wittgenstein proved.
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, so aptly titled, has bewildered many thinkers- and even though he proclaimed that it solved all philosophical problems, most modern day people regard PI with praise and think it something superior.
But then, no one has taken his mention seriously that the Tractatus consists of two things, that which has written and that which he obviously did not write. And that the Tractatus was about Ethics.
The Bible, stupid.
Match the first 7 lines from genesis with those 7 propositions from the Tractatus and you should have no trouble understanding what W is talking about.
And thus, the Tractatus is redeemed once more as completion of philosophy, and PI is recognized for being a really big hint on how to tackle the Tractatus.