
Aphorisms, Waste-Books and the Philosophy of Short Forms
Lichtenberg and Wittgenstein

A page from Newton’s Waste-books 2. It’s a question whether in the arts and science a best is possible beyond which our understanding cannot go. Perhaps this point is infinitely distant, notwithstanding that with every closer approximation we have less in front of us. 7. If we want to draw up a philosophy that will […]
Peters, M. A. (2022). Aphorisms, Waste-Books and the Philosophy of Short Forms: Lichtenberg and Wittgenstein. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/aphorisms-waste-books-and-the-philosophy-of-short-forms/