{"id":621,"date":"2020-09-05T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonathanullyot.com\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2020-09-19T02:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T02:21:45","slug":"wittgenstein-philosophical-investigations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonathanullyot.com\/?page_id=621","title":{"rendered":"wittgenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late 2014, I began to illustrate Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations <\/a><\/em>(1953). The project is still ongoing (I’m currently stuck around PI 179: there are 693), and many [early] drawings are being revised and modified. My goal is ultimately to erase, if not eradicate the text entirely, by means of a pictorial language. They all fail, but only insofar as that language is not yet made public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PI 1
Computer Drawing
2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI2 (a language for which the description given by Augustine is right)
Computer Drawing
2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 42
Computer Drawing
2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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PI 43
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 44
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 69
2015
Pencil and ink on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 70
2014
Ink on magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 71 (The Bear)
((“Frege compares a concept to an area and says that an area with vague boundaries cannot be called an area at all.”))
2015
Ink on folded magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 72 (Yellow Ocre)
2014
ink on magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 74
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 75 (Lancelot and the Giantess)
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 76 (Dr. Saw)
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 77 (Saw and Son Vague Rectangle)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 78
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 79 (Painted Pottery Bowl)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 80 (Chair Disappearing)
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 81 (Ideal Language)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 84 (Ideal Drawing)
2014
ink and pencil on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 85
2014
ink on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 90 (Penetrate Phenomena)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 91 (We Eliminate Misunderstandings by Making our Expressions More Exact)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 95 (Thought Can Be of What is Not the Case)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 96
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 97 (Angels)
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 99
2015
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 116
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 117
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 118
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 119
2014
Computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 120 (Cow)
2014
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 122
2014
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 124
2015
ink and marker on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 125
2015
graphite on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 126
2015
graphite on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 127
2015
graphite marker ink and string on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 128
2015
graphite and marker on printed paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 131 (Measuring Rod)
2015
ink on magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 132
2015
ink on magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 136 (Chopin)
2015
ink on magazine paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 140
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 146 (Where Communication Stops)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 144 (Indian Mathematics)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 145 (The Student)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 146 (Green)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 144 (How Can it Be)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 148 (A Thought of Something)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 148 (The Disposition of Knowing ABC)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 150
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 151 (He Was Depressed the Whole Day)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 152
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 153 (I am in a Muddle)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 154 (Now I Know How to Go On)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 155 (He Had a Special Experience)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 156 (Reading)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 157 (Reading)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 158 (The Brain)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 159 (The Cheater)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 160
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 161 (Watch)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 162 (The Man Alone in the Night)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 164 (Artichoke)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 165
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 166 (Sun Phallus Trinity Fructifying Wind)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 167 (Familiar Faces)
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 168
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 169
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PI 170
2015
computer drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In late 2014, I began to illustrate Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (1953). The project is still ongoing (I’m currently stuck around PI 179: there are 693), and many [early] drawings are being revised and modified. My goal is ultimately to erase, if not eradicate the text entirely, by means of a pictorial language. They all fail,… Continue reading wittgenstein<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nwittgenstein - Jonathan Ullyot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jonathanullyot.com\/?page_id=621\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"wittgenstein - Jonathan Ullyot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In late 2014, I began to illustrate Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (1953). 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