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Corresponding Klew: K-12 “Wittgenstein as Designer”

Wittgenstein: To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

Aspect seeing is the ability to see one thing in multiple ways. An example by Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations is that we can see the "duckrabbit" either as a duck or as a rabbit.

Aspect-seeing "lies in the connection between the concepts of seeing an aspect and of experiencing the meaning of word." 

Wittgenstein: "I contemplate a face, and then suddenly notice its likeness to another. see that it has not changed; and yet see it differently".

Wittgenstein: Visual space has essentially no owner.

Wittgenstein: Thus, we evolve language socially in order to meet the demands of our environment. It is our shared negotiation of reality.

↓ Paolozzi's Print Portfolio inspired by W 

Don't Think – Look!

Otl Aicher:
wittgenstein says that language disguises thought. the structure of thought is shown in logical-analytical operation. a logical operation of this kind is a kind of mathematical calculation of an algebraic nature. for this wittgenstein proposed an algebraic notation of his own with signs for logical steps. he thought he had created a complete system for finding truth, by means of which meaningless sentences can be separated from true ones, a kind of logical cosmology. he thought that this had solved the problems of philosophy.

later wittgenstein reversed his view. he then discovered that our concepts are not unambiguous, but have many dimensions. "what we teach is the different nature of concepts.' it is not a language with exact concepts that is precise, but a language that can adapt to states of affairs. in language games language moves towards its objects and as it were opens up new dimensions of the concept. we do not come closer to things through logic as a system of exact statements, but through study, the description of language in use.

there is no longer a truth function. functionalism as a system of exact elemental statements, as a system of exact scientific operations, is superseded. a new criterion of truth appears: use.

listening and looking become an act of philosophy, and not a thinking operation within a complete system any more. wittgenstein is now saying to his pupils: 'don't think, look!"

wittgenstein saw this transformation as painful. he now had to turn away from the attempt to establish a logical ideal language and agree that everyday language reveals the meaning of language, everyday use. it is in use that we see what language can capture and how it captures it.

this is a fundamental reversal, and wittgenstein was plagued by doubts about the world and about himself because of the collapse of a system-orientated view of the world. he thinks it is possible: 'that mankind is running into a trap, that it is the end of mankind if it looks for a final systematic truth." there is nothing good or desirable about scientific cognition, he said. he was taking the error of the age upon himself.

Tractatus ↓

Wittgenstein remarks in the Notebooks that "I am placed in" world the "like my eye its visual field." Everybody's eye is never inside, but outside, one's visual field. By parallel  the metaphysical subject is outside the world of sayables.

Ernst Mach, Self Portrait, 1886 ↓

Challenged by a colleague to ‘depict the contemplation of self as “I”’, Ernst Mach responds with an image: he draws what he sees of himself when he squints with one eye. Viewing this image through the lens of certain writings and conversations of Wittgenstein from the years 1929–31, I would like to ask: what is this picture saying? And, if anything at all is being said: how is it said? The ensuing discussion of the field of vision and visual space touches – among other things – on a critique of idealism and realism, the difference between complete and incomplete images, depiction in a proposition, and the hand as an element. In this way, the question will lead us to consider possible aspects of the expressive power of Mach’s image. READ

Value cannot be in the world, since it resides in the human subject; and the human subject is not an object within reality, but the limit or horizon which brings that reality into focus.

↓ Dieter Rot, Why Wittgentstein has to be an Ascetic and why Rot cannot be a Philosopher 

Wittgenstein: The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

"When names proliferate it's time to stop" warns the Tao. (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) 

Wittgenstein: Man exists in language like a fly trapped in a bottle: that which it cannot precisely that through which it sees the world.

“What is your aim in Philosophy?”
↓ “To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle” ↓ Ed Ruscha style

Wittgenstein: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world" ↓↓