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- If you were a famous rapper, who would be in your posse? See all answers
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- January 23, 2009 by monstro
- Why my hip-hop posse would include Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
In "Investigations," Wittgenstein asks the reader to think of language and its uses as a multiplicity of language-games within which the parts of language function and have meaning. As a result of this perspective, many conventional philosophical problems (i.e., what is truth?) become meaningless wordplay. And what is hip-hop, if not that?
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@monstro interesting definition of hip-hop. Did you consider that Nietzsche thought that truth could only be expressed within a linguistic context? Or that if babies who knew of Chomsky's language acquisition device were using it to pick up the pieces of what Wittgenstein were using those pieces to play their own language game? Or that that language game might be called truth? I know I'd never considered it until I read your post.