One thing I definitely applaud in Wittgenstein is his opposition to scientism. M. O'C. Drury in Conversations with Wittgenstein, ed. Rush Rhees (Oxford, 1984), pp. 160-161:
One day, walking in the Zoological Gardens, we admired the immense
variety of flowers, shrubs, trees, and the similar multiplicity of
birds, reptiles, animals.
WITTGENSTEIN: I have always thought that Darwin was wrong: his
theory does not account for all the variety of species. It hasn't
the necessary multiplicity. Nowadays some people are fond of saying
that at last evolution has produced a species that is able to
understand the whole process which gave it birth. Now that you
can't say.
DRURY: You could say that now there has evolved a strange animal
that collects other animals and puts them in gardens. But you can't
bring the concepts of knowledge and understanding into this series.
They are different categories entirely.
WITTGENSTEIN: Yes, you could put it that way.
To imagine that evolutionary theory could cast light on the concepts of knowledge and understanding involves a massive metabasis eis allo genos, to use a a favorite Greek phrase of Kierkegaard.
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