# Wittgenstein video

* metapher language = sort of picture is missleading
  * hello, perhaps, ... have no picture
* lot's of different ways to describe relationship world-language
  * what do with language = language games
  * lot's of different language games
  * meaning of a world is the way it is used in a language game
* questions in philosophy
  * arrise because mix up of language games
  * example: they talk about *soul* like a physical object
  * philosopher should sort out the language games
  * philosophy can not question language games
* private language
  * there cant be one
  * word use because of culture
  * "we speak as we do, because of what we do"
  * speaking is public affair
  * Descartes started with lonely self with only it's own sensations
    * Wittenstein want's to overturn this old model and start with the culture.

# Bertrand Russel

* Wittgenstein was his protege
* Co-Founder of analytic philosophy
* theory of descriptions
  * about wheter a sentence like 'the current king of france is gray' is true, false or meaningless
  * he says it means: one king of france exists and he is gray.
  * so there can't be empty identities
    * if no king of france exists, the sentence is simply false
* Links:
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell%27s_views_on_philosophy#Philosophy_of_language
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_descriptions

# Early Wittgenstein

* Student and Friend of Russel
* early work named The Tractatus
* a simple statement pictures a state of affairs (Sachlage) about simple objects
* a simple statement is true if state of affairs exists
* complex statements are with *and*, *or* and *not* compound simple statements
* statements which not fit in this are nonsensical
* most philosophical views are nonsensical
* Link
  * http://www.harryhiker.com/ap/witt--00.htm