00:21Wittgenstein plays chess with Duchamp or have not to do philosophy
00:38The contrast between the familiar and unfamiliar interested Wittgenstein throughout his career
00:57Wittgenstein once described the situation in philosophy thus
01:02It is as if a man is standing in a room facing a wall on which are painted a number
01:07of dummy doors
01:09Wanting to get out he fumblingly tries to open them vainly trying them all one after the other over and
01:15over again
01:17But of course it is quite useless and all the time although he doesn't realize it
01:22There is a real door in the wall behind his back and all he has to do is to turn
01:28around and open it
01:29To help him get out of the room all we have to do is to get him to look in
01:34a different direction
01:35But it's hard to do this since wanting to get out he resists our attempts to turn him away from
01:40where he thinks the exit must be
01:42To be continued...
01:45To be continued...
01:50To be continued...
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