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@Shoq but who does the RT (in the new system) does show up in a special place under the tweet.

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You "will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked & open inwards; as long as

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Dreamers hope to acquire a life of advantage. But to succeed they must notice and learn to use the tools at hand. And

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it does not occur to [you] to pull rather than push" Wittgenstein, http://books.google.com/books... p.42

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A major reason people think philosophy is hard to read: They read it too quickly. Philosophy should be read slowly and pondered.

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@coachkiki What is your 2B Ph.D. in?

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@coachkiki What about Wittgenstein's history most impresses you?

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"Speech with and without thought is to be compared with the playing of a piece of music with and without thought." Witt, PI, aphorism 341

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Indeed, @coachkiki For example, what other philosopher inherited great wealth and gave it all away to live simply & do philosophy?

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...Reading the written sentence loud or soft is indeed comparable with singing from a musical score, but

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@ileducprof Were your tweets cited in the legal paper? That would be a surprise. Your book, Teaching Black Girls? Not so much a surprise.

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"My sentences are all supposed to be read slowly." Wittgenstein http://books.google.com/books... p.57e

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@ileducprof Can you tell us more about the legal paper, too ?

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@ileducprof Did you mention the word in a Tweet? Or in a formal writing?

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@coachkiki Don't recall that, but impressive. hmmm. LW does have an interesting remark on language and music...hold on. I'll find it.

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@coachkiki Yes, yes. I've read that, too. Wittgenstein had his dark side. But his philosophy is just magical, if one gets into it.

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'meaning' (thinking) the sentence that is read is not. aphorism#22

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Reach for the clouds, but if your dreams are too specific you'll never get there. Reachable dreams have a little flexibility built in.

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Once and a while, one does need to stop and think before speaking, stilted or not. May we know when its such a time.

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People may say "Think before you speak," but just imagine how stilted conversations would become if we always thought before we spoke.

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When conversation goes well, our words are not separate from our thoughts. They move as one, like a boat on a river. Nevertheless

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Have U noticed theres a new link 2 "Retweets" N th sidebar? It includes tabs for all th RTs U've received, sent,& RTs of Ur tweets.

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And, for Wittgenstein, our failure to understand that language consists of sub-languages leaves us in confusion because

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Of course, we sometimes fail to understand each other -- and much more often than we think.

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"what confuses us is the uniform appearance of words when we hear them spoken or meet them in script &print." http://books.google.com/books... sec11

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the rules of language are inconsistent across language games. Wittgenstein says:

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Let me put later Wittgenstein's later philosophy in a nutshell, according to my interpretation, of course. (see: http://users.rcn.com/rathbon... )

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Often times, different language games share the same words but not the same rules. http://users.california.com/~rathbo... For instance,

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To avoid confusion, we must detect which language game is being played &change our rule set to coordinate with talking partners.

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The term "break" means something different in a language game about broken objects than in a language game about cars.

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