TWombly-dedee
* A long time ago, there was a war between the sexes for control of the world and women lost the earth. It was men who got to decide the structure of society; what was acceptable, good, moral, the color of right. Now the turnkey of history has shifted as existing structures no longer bear the weight of time.
* A difference of one hour, one hotel, one gentleman. Time and singularity provide the canvas for subjective action.
* “Now I eat red meat and sleep when I feel sleepy,” she thought bitterly.
But she waited placidly. She knew she would soon be told all that she must think and say and do and feel.
* p.284-6 “The man is 2m tall therefore he is not 3m tall.”
* p.357 The clock story
“The clock becomes bewildering … is that he introduces a sort of entity which he can’t see …”
Measuring a part of infinity so when a clock is not bewildering - is it doing away with time, i.e. allowing us to ignore ‘it’
* Russells hierarchy of types for Witt’s theory of symbols. Logical relationships between a proposition and a state of affairs. Self-manifestations, the set of all classes is not in the set of classes. No facts a priori. It is man’s imposition of functions on the objective world, the subjective over the objective.
* p.129 “We can be indefinite and certain but surely the world cannot be. The world has a fixed structure. And this allows the possibility of language having a definite meaning.” This assumes we as different from the definite world, and yet we created language.
* Metalanguage: ‘chair’ is not a chair, ‘wolf’ is not a wolf, but ‘predicate’ is a predicate.
We are perhaps more inclined towards the fallen angel than towards true aspiration.
