{"id":157,"date":"2006-01-15T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-01-15T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:43:50","slug":"so-magnificently-preposterous-that-it-has-to-be-redistributed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"So magnificently preposterous that it has to be redistributed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2006\/01\/singing_in_germ.html\">WFMU FM&#8217;s Beware of the Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;After freemasons and lumberjacks, the only logical next topic is Wittgenstein, like Mozart an Austrian native. During the first world war he wrote the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in which he claimed to have solved all problems of philosophy. Here is the famous second paragraph of the introduction in English translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.  Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: What can be said at all can be said clearly; <b>and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last half sentence just asks to be set to music, and it is strange that it took a whole 46 years until Finnish troubadour M. A. Numminen did just that, accompanied by the Sohon Torwet brass band. You can hear the tune with the original German lyrics &#8220;<b>Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar\u00fcber muss man schweigen<\/b>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogfiles.wfmu.org\/LG\/M_A_Numinnen_-_Wovon_man_nicht_sprechen_kann.mp3\">here<\/a> (MP3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from WFMU FM&#8217;s Beware of the Blog: &#8230;After freemasons and lumberjacks, the only logical next topic is Wittgenstein, like Mozart an Austrian native. During the first world war he wrote the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in which he claimed to have solved all problems of philosophy. Here is the famous second paragraph of the introduction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}