Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic

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Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2012, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baltas, Aristeides. Peeling potatoes or grinding lenses : Spinoza and young Wittgenstein converse on immanence and its logic / Aristides Baltas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-8229-4416-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632–1677. Ethica. 2. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889–1951. Tractatus logicophilosophicus . 3. Immanence (Philosophy) 4. Language and languages—Philosophy. 5. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. 6. God. I. Title. B3974.B35 2012 192—dc23 2011039618 I can work best now while peeling potatoes. . . . It is for me what lens-grinding was for Spinoza. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Geheime Tagebücher 1914–1916 ...