A meditation on Wittgenstein, language and talking to each other. This 10-minute talk is from the #memtech Super UG Meetup from July 17, 2014 Video of the presentation: https://vimeo.com/101055990

1. How to Talk with Designers
A Talk of Broad Generalizations

2. But First, an Admission
I have multiple personalities and one is a Philosopher… shhhhhh!

3. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher of Language, Logic, Math and the Mind
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Best Known Works:
Philosophical Investigations
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

4. A Common Language
Or at least a common vocabulary during a given language game

5. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The world is my world: this is manifest in
the fact that the limits of language (of that
language which alone I understand) mean
the limits of my world.”
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

6. WRONG

7. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Imagine someone pointing to a place in the
iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The
walls of my room should be painted this
color.’"

8. Design Is Not All Subjective
And Design is not necessarily Art

9. Educate and Be Educated

10. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand
him.”
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

11. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What can be said at all can be said clearly,
and what we cannot talk about we must
pass over in silence.”
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

12. Contact Information
Twitter: @brob
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/bryanlrobinson
Email:
bryanlrobinson@gmail.com
bryan@hackmemphis.org
memphiswebworkers@gmail.com