Re: Logic in USSR

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
> >>>> "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen"
> >>>>   - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
> >>> If it's worth quoting, is it worth translating?
> >> If you don't know what you're talking about keep your mouth shut.
> > But presumably, as a teacher, you don't believe that: you wouldn't
want
> > your students not to ask questions about something they don't
> > understand--unless I'm missing something.
>
> You are.
>
> He *did* translate it.

Ullrich mistranslated.  "man nicht sprechen kann" translates as "man
cannot speak" or "man cannot say", not as "man doesn't know what he's
talking about."