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The result was keep. LFaraone 05:51, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Big Book (thought experiment)[edit]

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Notability not established for over 5 years. Puffin ^{Let's talk!} 15:59, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:57, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge or keep. Wittgenstein is really, really well-studied, which includes this thought experiment. Frankly, I'd rather we mention it in his article and redirect there instead of spinning this one minor snippet of his philosophy out into its own article, but if others are passionate about defending its independence, I won't stand in there way. In any case, since the primary concern here is that there's nothing to demonstrate the notability of this concept, here are a couple sources. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Klemke, E. D. (1975). "Wittgenstein's lecture on Ethics". The Journal of Value Inquiry. 9 (2): 118–127.
• Wolcher, L. E. (1998). "A meditation on Wittgenstein's Lecture on ethics". Law and Critique. 9 (1): 3–35.

• Keep. I added some references, to address some concerns [1]. I also moved the nice material Squeamish just mentioned into a further reading section. The weird thing is that there is no article yet on Wittgenstein's ethical theories, which if there were, I would just say merge this into that. Right now this article is pretty much the only material on Wittgenstein's ethics in this encyclopedia; hopefully that will change. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 09:34, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Notable concept, sufficiently supported by references — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gregbard (talk • contribs) 21:24, 19 November 2013‎

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