[Edu-sig] re: Naming in Python

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk at qwest.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:18 AM
> To: 'Arthur'; edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] re: Naming in Python
> 
> 
> Hi Art --
> 
> I've been thinking about your observation, but haven't come up with a
> really
> coherent way to extend your thinking, in such a way that a prove I know
> what
> you mean.  Per Wittgenstein (a philosopher I like, and his philo the focus
> another eGroup I post in), if you go 1, 12, 42  and I go 92, 162, that
> sort
> of proves I have an idea about the rule you're using (or maybe not?).

Wittgenstein, huh?

In an introduction to one of Wittgenstein's books, Bertrand Russell notes
the influence of projective geometry on Wittgenstein - saying something to
the effect that Wittgenstein applied projective geometry concepts to
linguistics.

Getting past Russell's introduction and into Wittgenstein writing itself, I
pretty much get nowhere.  It is a case where I would need to be taught - get
some guidance from someone who has broken through.  Or perhaps I don't have
the background in philosophical ideas and history, to understand the context
of Wittgenstein's thought.

Maybe a break-out session on Wittgenstein at PyCon ;)

Art