RE MY SELF TEST FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

With everyone wondering whether they aren't perhaps succumbing, I thought I would do a 'self test'; 


I have had McDonough's book, The Argument Of  The 'Tractatus', sitting on the shelf for a few of years unread.


I have actually found it entertaining, 40 or 50 pages along, and not particularly difficult reading, and not too taxing on the attention span; so now believe I may be actually holding Alzheimer's disease at bay.


Of course, there are other issues running around, with a person who could find something like this to be light, entertaining reading. Oh well........ It would be a sufficient consolation to be considered a 'troglodyte' of the species that DK considers himself and some of his readers.


I recommend McDonough to anyone wanting an accessible account of some of the more recherché issues involving logic running around in the early Wittgenstein, which spill over into the later themes.


Regrettably, it has very little to do directly with geopolitics or competitiveness. 


If anything, negatively, this general kind of subject matter is perhaps an example of the susceptibility of academia to obscure compartmentalizations of all types including philosophy specializations. 


Nevertheless, I would suggest, in partial defense of this particular work, that 'basic research' of this type (it touches many subcategories in several fields, typically treated compartmentally) incidentally should be made to serve many applications outside philosophy, if it were properly made known.  


Terms search, say, 'Wittgenstein' for a special thread through certain remarks. 


'Cartoon' will pull in many related themes.