Week 4: Reasonable Logic (post 8)

Another statement in Reasonable Logic, Wittgenstein wrote, "6.36311 That the sun will rise to-morrow, is an hypothesis; and that means that we do not know whether it will rise." Based on this, it can mean a variety of things, but overall we do not know for sure what will and will not happen. We go to bed at night, we wake up when the sun rises, we dress warm in the winter etc.. These are all things that happen automatically, now for the sun rising and it being a hypothesis we'll never know about things in this world, some things are blatant and some are hidden, but I see that the sun will rise, but maybe he believed that the sun wouldn't rise tomorrow if someone isn't here anymore, if someone passes away they will not witness the sun rising the next morning. Maybe he wanted to send out the message to live each day as if it were your last because you never know when you wont be here to witness the beauty of the world.

This statement can be interpreted in so many ways by individuals all over the map. I particularly liked this statement of Wittgenstein's because it is so ambiguous and indefinite on many levels. People will give many reasons as to what this may and may not mean to them, but that is the fun part we will never know we can just guess and interpret what we feel to be the answer.The sun will rise tomorrow, if we say will in the sentence is that a must or a question? If we are saying "will rise" won't it? If it was changed to, "may rise" then wouldn't that make more sense? Somewhere around the world the sun has already risen when the sun has set here, so the sun is constantly rising somewhere around the world.