/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6274697]

>So what's the deal with breakfast, huh? We have continental breakfast but no analytic breakfast!
>But seriously folks, did Wittgenstein have autism or what?

[Anonymous No.6274751]

Why does /lit/ think Wittgenstein had autism?

[Anonymous No.6274763]

>>6274751

he was very polite

[Anonymous No.6274768]

>>6274751
His philosophy has a lot in common with autistic cognition. It's not just /lit/ either, the observation has been made long before ours.

[Anonymous No.6274781]

>>6274768
>autistic cognition
...

[Anonymous No.6274806]

Yeah, probably. He was a turbo-virgin, too.

[Anonymous No.6274811]

>>6274751
>He also joined in with other aspects of family life. In particular, he enjoyed playing Ludo and Snakes and Ladders with the girls - so much so that on one occasion, when a game of Snakes and Ladders in which Wittgenstein was particularly absorbed had gone on for over two hours, the girls had to plead with him against his will to leave the game unresolved.

[Anonymous No.6274819]

He fucked Bertrand Russell up the ass with a fire iron.

[Anonymous No.6274823]

>>6274768
That sounds more like Russel

[Anonymous No.6274838]

>>6274811
Thats actually fucking hilarious

[Anonymous No.6274848]

>>6274823
It's true of both of them. Analytic philosophy is autistic philosophy.

[Anonymous No.6274856]

>>6274819

karl popper

[Anonymous No.6274894]

u need not conflate eccentricity w autism

[Anonymous No.6274936]

>>6274894
Nigga looks autistic af

[Anonymous No.6274941]

>>6274936
Which one?

[Anonymous No.6274950]

>>6274941
Both, but a non-autist would realize I was primarily referring to the nigga physically present, not the nigga on the boon.

[Anonymous No.6274968]

>>6274950
Not really. The thread is about the allegedly autistic Wittgenstein, who happens to be on the cover of the book.

[Anonymous No.6274974]

>>6274968
But I was responding to a particular post. Again, a non-autist would make that connection.

[Anonymous No.6274988]

>>6274974
Yeah, you were responding to the post that had a an old photo of Wittgenstein...

Why do I look autistic, anyway?

[Anonymous No.6274993]

>Ought implies can

That's the true autism. I call it Oughtism.

[Anonymous No.6275002]

>>6274988
>Yeah, you were responding to the post that had a an old photo of Wittgenstein...
It was a picture of you holding a book with his picture on it. It was a picture of you, not of Wittgenstein.
>Why do I look autistic, anyway?
Eyes, nose, forehead.
Your posts are more autty than your face, though.

[Anonymous No.6275023]

>>6275002
Could you take your burgeoning love affair to snapchat and admire his autty eyes there.

[Anonymous No.6275025]

>>6275023
Nah

[Anonymous No.6275036]

>>6274751
>“Wittgenstein’s correspondence with Pattison consists almost entirely of ‘nonsense’. In nearly every letter he makes some use of the English adjective ‘bloody’, which, for some reason, he found inexhaustibly funny. He would often begin his letters ‘Dear Old Blood’ and end them ‘Yours bloodily’ or ‘Yours in bloodiness’. Pattisson would send him photographs cut out from magazines, which he called his ‘paintings’, and to which Wittgenstein would respond with exaggeratedly solemn appreciation: ‘I would have known it to be a Pattison immediately without the signature. There is that bloodiness in it which has never before been expressed by the brush.’ In reply, Wittgenstein would send ‘portraits’, photogrphs of distinguished looking middle-aged men, ripped out of newspaper advertisements for self-improvement courses. ‘My latest photo’, he announced, enclosing one such picture. ‘The previous one expressed fatherly kindness only; this one expresses triumph’.”

>"Throughout the correspondence there is a gentle ridicule of the language of the advertiser, the absurdity of the style being invoked simply by using it as though it were the normal way for two friends to write to each other. Sending Wittgenstein a (genuine) photograph of himself, Pattisson writes on the back: 'On the other side is pictured one of our 47/6 suits.' 'Somehow or the other, Wittgenstein writes at the end of one letter, 'one instinctively feels that Two Steeples No. 83 Quality Sock is a real man's sock. It's a sock of taste - dressy, fashionable, comfortable.'"

[Anonymous No.6275039]

>>6274751
Because a wikipedia page with shitty citations said so

[Anonymous No.6275048]

I mean when you look at his biography and all the shit that went on with his family, its surprising he wasn't more 'autistic'

P.s. wittgenstein's life story is a bloody good read in itself.

[Anonymous No.6275050]

>>6275036
Wittgenstein and friend confirmed for proto-vaporwave.

[Anonymous No.6275054]

>>6275036

He would definitely post on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6275061]

>On 25 October 1946, Karl Popper (then at the London School of Economics), was invited to present a paper entitled "Are There Philosophical Problems?" at a meeting of the Moral Sciences Club, which was chaired by Wittgenstein. The two started arguing vehemently over whether there existed substantial problems in philosophy, or merely linguistic puzzles—the position taken by Wittgenstein. In Popper's, and the popular account, Wittgenstein used a fireplace poker to emphasize his points, gesturing with it as the argument grew more heated. When challenged by Wittgenstein to state an example of a moral rule, Popper (later) claimed to have replied "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers", upon which (according to Popper) Wittgenstein threw down the poker and stormed out. Wittgenstein's Poker collects and characterizes the accounts of the argument, as well as establishing the context of the careers of Popper, Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, also present at the meeting.

[Anonymous No.6275063]

>>6275036
Top tier humor
He's up there with Diogenes for funniest philfag

[Anonymous No.6275078]

>>6274751
He didn't. People often try to find something they consider bad about others in order to not feel so inferior.

>Newton was a genius, his discoveries are outstanding!
>>hurr durr he never got laid

>Wittgenstein is one of the most important philosophers, both the Tractatus and P.I changed philosophy!
>>hurr durr autist

>Dante was a literary genius!
>>hurr durr fagget couldn't fuck beatrice anti-fedora shit

[Anonymous No.6275093]

Wittgenstein gave away his fortune to his siblings, refused to wear a tie, furnished his rooms with deckchairs, whistled entire concertos, played a clarinet, and wolfed down cream doughnuts while watching John Wayne films, The Economist reported.

[Anonymous No.6275114]

>>6275093
>played the clarinet
lol loser

[Anonymous No.6275115]

>>6275036

[Anonymous No.6275159]

>>6274751
http://autisticsymphony.com/wittgenstein.html

Also, the Wittgenstein family allegedly had Ludwig tested for cognitive disorders and were fiercely secretive about its results. I believe it's a somewhat dubious piece of evidence in Wittgenstein scholarship, possibly fake. For instance it's not mentioned in the biography by Monk from which >>6275036 is sourced.

[Anonymous No.6275166]

>>6275036
top bantz

[Anonymous No.6275333]

>>6275036
this is mde shit right here