Thoughts On Economics

"Typically 2 the integer is used for counting, whereas 2 the real number is used for measuring. But in higher mathematics there...

"One must be able to say at all times - instead of points, straight lines, and planes -- tables, chairs, and beer mugs." -- Dav...

I present four claims about Marx's Capital . I strive for topics more general than, for example, squabbles about the transformation pro...

Figure 1: Lattice Diagram for Group of Symmetries of the Square "I shall now mention something I obviously do not understand....

I try here to outline certain postmodern 1 doctrines that, in a full development, might result in one using obscure terminology. None of t...

On the Post Topic Some great thinkers compare their work to the works of Nicolaus Copernicus or of Galileo: "The old logic put th...

I have been reading a book, edited by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants, comparing and contrasting Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Marx. This...

An Unsurveyable Rule For Generating A Real Number In Binary Format Noah Smith offers a definition: "Mathematics is the manipulatio...

Apparently Wittgenstein wrote the following in 1937: "The origin and the primitive form of the language game is a reaction; only from t...

The March 2008 issue of Harper's Magazine reports that a new edition of Wittgenstein's letters in Cambridge is being published by ...

King’s College Cambridge 14 March 1938 Dear Wittgenstein, Before trying to discuss, probably in a confused way, I want to give a clear answe...

I had this as a draft post before the discussion on this over at Max's place. "Wittgenstein and P. Sraffa, a lecturer in economics...

Ralph Dumain has compiled a bibliography on Wittgenstein, Marxism, and Sociology . It contains, for example, the Moran article in the New Le...

On being recommended a couple of sources, I have been reading about Wittgenstein's political opinions, especially as in regard to Russia...

One might meet, in certain precincts of the Internet, soi-disant libertarians. As far as I am concerned, "libertarians" of this st...