Imagine walking into a lecture hall and seeing the notes of the previous lecture being a doodle of a dog and a pineapple with the words 'a dog' and 'this is a very pleasant pineapple'.

one must imagine pineapple pleasant

*Wittgenstein:* It makes no sense to speak of _knowing_ something in a context where we could not possibly doubt it... *Descarte:* well fuck

"Philosophy is just a by-product of misunderstanding language! Why don't you realize that!" He gets it.

Having Wittgenstein as a professor would have been pretty awesome.

KZfaq recommendations are getting really dank.

Went to the comments in search of discussion, found only memes.

This also explains the communication difficulties between autistic and neurotypical people.

My boy Witty G in the house! R A I S E T H E R O O F (3cm)

Every time I have seen Karl Johnson act, I keep thinking he could have emerged as one of acting greats of cinema if fate had worked itself out another way. I'm that impressed by his talent & command of presence. For the most part of his career, I think he focused on stage. He does have an extended resume in filmography and television, yes. But I can't help but feel we were deprived of a talent that could have had more extensive exposure to the big & small screen in posterity. Shame as it is, I can enjoy this performance & other roles in, such as, HBO's "Rome", "Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire", and sillier, fun films like "The Death of Stalin" and "Hot Fuzz". Thank you, Karl.

I'm looking at my dog now. And he's lying on the couch.

why are there two guys in raincoats? and a guy in shorts? and a guy in a tennis sweater for that matter. wtf is wrong with the people attending???

This is absolutely amazing, the idea that this videos shares is simple, yet so complex and done in such a short period. I absolutely love studying philosophical, sociological, and also linguistical theories and studies, and something I always say is that "languages work with concepts, not with words" most specifically that languages work with our worldview, the way we, humans, see the world itself is completely biased towards not only our own species, but also our completely individual experiences as human beings. As he says it there "to imagine a language is to imagine a form of life". If at times it is difficult to understand or to explain a topic to someone of your same species who too speaks the same language, I cannot fathom how of a challenge it would be to understand a dog or lion language, they are completely different species compared to us, thus having a completely different view of how things work, so it's no surprise Wittgenstein thinks that there are no philosophical questions, but rather only linguistical, but I personally think that these linguistical, mathematical, ethical, logistical and religious problems are all part of what I see as "philosophy". And when he says "this is a very pleasant pineapple", he could be talking about how the pineapple looks, or how the pineapple seems to look, or how it smells, or how it seems to smell for him, or maybe the text, he could not even be talking about your or my perception of what "pleasure" or "pineapple". I believe it's important to separate things between *what is said* vs *what it means*, it is the phrase and "the thought", and what's really dangerous here for me is the question of perspective, even though we may be able to perceive something in a certain way, it's impossible to know if that's what it really means, many people could say the same thing, and to many other people inside their own context and personal experiences, it could mean many different things, it's the ambiguity of linguistics, and to imagine that could be fixed by saying what you actually think precisely using careful and well thought words is really lovely, but merely a delusion. Humanity has this problem of looking for exact views and absolute perceptions where they simply don't exist, we are not perfect, nor is the world we live in, nothing is absolute, we're all living in constant contradicton with the knowledge and the unknown.

I watched this film 10 years ago and wasn’t impressed with the acting but after reading his biography by Ray Monk, I think this covers how he’s described brilliantly! Long silences with his head on the table during lectures.

Why did this appear in my recommendation pages.

Brilliant acting, and brilliant filmmaking as well! I love the stage approach.

My dog lies everyday and tries to pull the wool over my eyes; especially when it come to his favorite treats. But he is incredibly sincere about his love for me. So take that Mr. Fictitious Wittgenstein.

this scene gives me goosebumps

"THERE ARE NO GENUINE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS! ONLY LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS!"

Wittgenstein(this satirical character) is right, we cannot see the world through the eyes of another animal, culture or ethnic religion.Translated mythology or poetry may appear to tell us about a familiar sequence of say natural phenomena, but by rendering these descriptions into ordinary language we miss out on it's essential meaning.

Wittgenstein is the kind of professor I wish I had when I was at University.

Imagine if Wittgenstein live to see "Pineapple pen" meme in 2016

I'm addicted to his voice

whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent

Probably will cost me the rest of my life to comprehend this.

''For me or for the lion?'' Fatality!

Reminds me Nagel's "What it's like to be a bat"

"You have lost Rome without even raising your sword!" "You have lost Rome!"

The uncle of my friend ger, spent many hours sat in front of his peat fire telling stories and sharing time with Wittgenstein, the cottage is located in a sparse unspoilt part of the world with sea otters washing off the sea salt of the harbour in the tiny freshwater stream that ran across the end of his front garden, every evening at dusk. There is a dancing spot just inside the front (and only) door, folks just go about their daily business, the sun shines, the rain falls and all is well where people care for one another....we here in the west, under the shadow of uncertainty, stuck on the threads of a poisonous web of lies spun by crazy people wait...hope.....listen and then despair....time after time.....seek the truth, seek honesty and heed the lesson of the sermon on the mount spoken by a well decent geezer.....👊peace out xxx

This might explain why LLMs hallucinate. Though the use of "hallucinate" in the context of a large language model may itself be trivializing hallucinations.

Philosophy is just a by product of misunderstanding language. Fuck, this quote changed the way i think drastically

This gives a good glimpse into the mindset of the early twentieth century.

"LINGUISTIC CONFUSION MADE ME DO IT" (C) Ludwig Cube Wittgenstein

he looks so much like wittgenstein i had to double check his birthdate like "wtf is that possible"

Who has noticed, that the face of the pineapple changes through the scene? What does it mean ?

Damnit, I just began to understand Wittgenstein.....

Batman's butler among the audience. "Hullo, Batman's butler." "Hullo."

To show the chacter of the society in Cambridge through their diverse dressing manners. And to compare with Wittgenstein, who does not fit in his own manners. An accurate, brilliant, "symbolic" representation, including of Russel, Keynes ways shown in their dressing manners

"Philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language." Paradox arises because of the misuse of language.

Quite the colorful crowd. The one in red: would that be Bertrand Russell?

I watched the video without knowing anything about Wittgenstein. Now i know what is he talking about.

Karl Johson's acting was fascinating, if professior Wittgenstein was really like him, I would really liked him.

Hello fellow brains, whirring through this virtual world

If you drive through Norway there is a little town by a beautiful turquoise lake. Next to a little camping site on the other side of the water there is an almost hidden, worn-out sign that says: "Wittgenstein's hut”. Me and my family stumbled upon this by mere accident and followed the sign up a narrow path and it leads you to a small overgrown stone-house foundation on the edge of a steep cliff overlooking the serene lake. Also, I heard Wittgenstein was gay.

this man has obviously never kept a dog in his life

Neuroscience has told us that language can affect our perception of life by changing its brain chemistry

I can’t understand, because it’s a “pleasant pineapple”. This man was a genius.

There are two philosophies for Wittgenstein. This is his first philosophy --> 3:39 Later in life, he himself criticized this first philosophy of language. In his second philosophy, language is a social activity, not just for philosophical questions.

Good way to understand that we do not understand what we should understand but only because we do not understand how to understand symbols.

Philosophie ist ein Mißbrauch von Terminologie die zu diesem Zweck eigens erfunden wird. -- Heine

well enough ❤

the correct definition of a word or sentence is the intended idea in the mind of the speaker at a point in time. . Words are intended to convey ideas, but much communication may be unintended.

Now I think what he is getting at but no sooner did i think than I lost it again.

if we can't speak of doubt , we can't speak of knowledge either

This small excerpt of a film does not do justice to Wittgenstein, though Lord knows I have found him to be difficult. In the early days he was associated strongly with the Vienna circle of philosophy. They were against metaphysics/religion, every statement had to be testable/objective or it was metaphysics. After he wrote his magnum opus outlining his theory held gave up on philosophy as in his opinion he had solved the problem of philosophy. Later he returned to philosophy as he became aware that his account of language was deficient. He then championed his philosophical psychology. Objectivity was achieved by the language that we share with each other eg English. These are my words that I write but hey are still English. there would be no point in having a private language as it could not be shared

The quickest way to solve any problem is to stop thinking about it.

it is not generally agreed upon that wittgenstein really wanted to say that philosophy itself is the thing with the problem in his first tractatus.

So much of his writings come off as an Autistic person metaphorically screaming at the disconnect between language and societal promotion of "honesty," and the actual material state of what he lives in and sees. I say that as someone who is Autistic and find his writings on language and honesty almost descriptive of my thoughts, but phrased more concisely. "Limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Absolute Genius.......

To SS. Language is what we say. It doesn't tell us anything. We create it. His point is to show that misunderstanding of how language works leads to non sense and/or pseudo problems.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

The best unintentional asmr😂

"ooh deeeaah"

4) Again, the point is to show that weekdays don't belong to a dog's "form of life".

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.003-4.0031

Gold. Like a pineapple. Made of gold. Pleasant gold.

The object is the pineapple. The pineapple is moving in the direction of ”pleasant” with the ambiguous quantifier “very”. The pineapple serves us as an atomic fact simply due to its existence in the first place, and the fact that its constituent parts are of no use in this context.

A word is not the thought, it's merely a clumsy portrayal of a thought. We only understand the approximation of what a person means when they say something.

This reminds me of Charlie Day in Always Sunny

Look at my dog. My dog is amazing. And so is my pineapple.

Geez man okay you win

Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

"It's not the dog we need".

Bill Nye giving an actual lecture

The words here are to be thought of with the smile, the posture, the nodding of the head, etc. They don’t convey any facts about the pineapple and could’ve been replaced with “yum!”

2:46 can someone explain this part to me please? “If you cannot doubt a thing, you cannot know it.” Why is that?

I'm currently rotating a 3D very pleasant pineapple in my mind

0:34 That guy's face omg

Karl’s Wittgenstein looks so sad, staring off during pauses. How do you perform a deeply lonely man, when one could not possibly know what his world was like?

Those who have seen the entire film, Please rate this film on IMDb here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/combined

i luv th furniture, camera on a rail? cool swing no less!

They have taught several animals a rudimentary form of language. So I would reason to think that that means our world is much more objective than we think

He went a tad Fuhreresque at the end!!

i keep coming back to this video because of how non-sensical it is

Sane as a box of frogs innit!

"This is a very pleasant Pineapple" is subjective. Language that is subjective is a language only spoken by the subject. It belongs wholly to the speaker. He is correct. Nothing is hidden and all is open to view once you understand why language is subjective and learn the language the speaker is speaking.

Did the dog eat the pineapple?

there is no recording of Wittgenstein's voice?

*Wittgenstein:* this is a very pleasant pineapple *The **_'this is not a pipe'_** painting guy:* No, this is not a pineapple

please what’s the name of that movie?

I enjoyed it, but a problem I've always had with reenactments is that they tend generally to overdramatize ... was Wittgenstein really such an emotional lecturer? I do know he got in trouble for boxing his female students' ears.

Where can I get the full video?

He would have been a great aeronaut.

Crown me with poppy and hibiscus ! crown These brows with nightshade, monkshood and vervain ! Let us anoint us with the unguents brown That waft our wizard bodies to the plain Where in the circle of unholy stones The unconsecrated Sabbath is at height ; Where the grim goat rattling his skulls and bones Makes music that dissolves the dusk of night Into a ruddy fervour from the abyss Such as I see (when cunning can surprise Our Argus foe and give us leave to kiss) Within your deep, your damned, your darling eyes. Ay ! to the Sabbath where the crowned worm Exults, with twisted yard and slime-cold sperm.

Wittgenstein II, btw. 3:40

3) everybody understands what a pleasant pinneaple is?

I'm surprised there's no YTP on this.

So this is how cato became so skilled at filibusters

I remember I urinated by a tree when I was 10 years old and my dog did afterwards. I didnt know what that meant. Did he say, "this is my territory"? Or did he say, "this is what I consumed for breakfast human, you smell it"? Why did he leave a scent signal?

OK... the reference theory of meaning...