@vrexec@ContrarianSaver He was acting as an individual and not an agent of an institution when he spoke his mind to you though. Your idea of "individualism" is that everybody is your servant and that they shouldn't speak their mind out of fear for the institution they work for. Odd.
@NicolasDVillar1 Wittgenstein inst contradicting this possibility, if anything he's affirming it by suggesting that non-human concepts would not be comprehensible to human beings. Otherwise it would just be human language.
@NicolasDVillar1 We "understand" them in spite of the fact that they don't speak by assuming their sounds are really surrogates for human concepts. A non-human concept is a speculative thing. I'm assuming that's what Wittgenstein is getting at.
@NicolasDVillar1 A mere sound that expresses some emotion isn't the same as language though. A scream of pain for instance is not the same as the words "pain", "agony" etc which are concepts abstracted from all individual instances of pain.
@sentientlife4o1@cheekybigfoot "lying oddyseus" seems obviously tongue-in-cheek and its light heartedness gets across the mischief implicit in "cunning" better than a more wordy rendition. I think Wilson is graciously assuming the reader isn't autistic
It's time we got over this fake association of chess and intelligence. Chess is a lowlife activity. Being an expert chess player is basically the same as being a JRPG speedrunner.