philosophy is "l know not what" by ludwig wittgenstein, discuss?

Question

what is wittgenstein's reason for defining philosophy as "i know not what".

Answer 1

Wittgenstein's´s reason for defining philosophy as i know not what is that philosophy is a knowledge which depicted the world of view to solve the problem of humanity ,thus it never stop or confined in limited sense ,but vast one and dialectical one according time and space .

Answer 2

Wittgenstein brought philosophy to a close with his work the 'Philosophical Investigations'. Now, as a subject it only continues as a historical curiosity. As Wittgenstein said: ''there are problems of mathematics, of science, of ethics, of language, but there are no strictly philosophical questions or problems''.

Philosophical problems arose from a misunderstanding and misuse of language, and Wittgenstein unravelled that, and in his words ''showed the fly the way out of the fly bottle''.

Answer 3

What Ludwig meant was that he didn't know what the purpose of philosophy was. He read most of the previous philosopher's works and then set out to solve it. He primarily focused on epistimology (how do we know anything). And as far as he (and myself) was concerned he did solve it. he attacked ideas such as, "I doubt that I exist", and said that you must either not know what doubt means, or what exist means, because in normal language (by which words derive meaning) these two words are never used in this way. Existance only applys to our perceptions, therefor it doesn't apply to anything outside of us. So we must exist because we define it. If we are in something else's imagination then we can't know it and it doesn't change anything around us. As Ludwig would say, "You have turned the spade." i.e. you have hit rock, you can't dig any further, it just isn't possible.

Answer 4

I suppose on a basic level philosophy is asking yourself questions about things. It is more the process of thinking about mysteries than anything else. If we take Sokrates as an example he decided the only worthwhile life was one of constant enquiry.
Also not to forget scepticism within philosophy - that is something which we can't know.

Answer 5

He was an empiricist and looked at what lay on the surface of theories, doctines or opinions, and therefore not express any opinions or offer deep explanations:- "philosophy simply puts everying before us , and neither explains or deduces anything... since evything lies open to view, there is nothing to explain"

Answer 6

Do you think it could be half of what he could have said, for example, I know not what I know but what I could know?

Answer 7

He was taking the p**s knowing people like yourself would look 'deeply into it.'