I'm an awful person.
- (Edited to conform with Tumblr's crappy chat guidelines)
- Max: generally i'm able to keep my feet on the ground, don't get the wrong impression, but occasionally i find myself drifting off to the slightly more discomforting thoughts that a basic education in philosophy leads to... yeah
- Chris: Sounds like fear, though - what's to be scared with that? Think about it - is solipsism really is right, then you've got no-one to be embarrassed in front of
- Max: i'm not too bothered about embarrasment and shame etc, it's the thought that all the people i've grown rather emotionally attatched to are little more than figments of my imagination... i don't know, when i'm on my deathbed maybe it'll seem a more comforting outlook. i keep meaning to try and read up on wittgenstein's little argument against it - i vaguely remember andy saying that if you read it properly it makes sense
- Chris: It was based on communication and language games, wasn't it? That language only makes sense if two or more people are playing the same game, in which case you lost it
- Max: yeah... oh you cunt
- Chris: ... couldn't resist
- *Note to outsiders: Ludwig Wittgenstein was a philosopher who pioneered the theory of language games - the idea that if two people can communicate in the same manner, then it makes sense as a language. He goes further to try and disprove solipsism (the idea that everything exists inside one's head) by saying that one sole person cannot feasibly communicate with themselves, as there is no agreed system to conform to, and hence solipsism is logically impossible. Of course, there are criticisms for this that I won't go into now, but it's an interesting theory. Andy (who Max references) was our philosophy teacher for the last two years. And you just lost the game, in case you missed it the first time.
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