Mulhall claims that that idea goes against the moral of Investigations §500: 'When a sentence is called senseless, it is not as it were its sense that is senseless.
For his role in the killings, which he refers to as a "senseless loss of life," Luff was sentenced to life in prison.
How could this be what could the reader have learned if the sentences of the Tractatus are senseless?
He now concluded that his seemingly senseless, extremely protracted efforts to align his sentences on the right side of Microsoft Word were in fact generating unusual syntactical constructions and strange word choices.
Rather, he is granting them mercy because they were over-sentenced for their crimes, because these sentences solved no problem, and (importantly) because the sentencing regime that sent them there created striking and senseless racial disparities.
This single sentence from Pope John Paul II, deploring "the senseless destruction of the natural environment," could serve as a dust-jacket summary of Wilson's book.
It was a "savage and senseless killing," said Judge Neal Kravitz of Superior Court, as he sentenced Mr. Rice to 52 years in prison and Mr. Piper to 37. Both men apologized at the hearing.
The boy with the golden nose is Robbie Paul Brannigann), a skinny, hotheaded hooligan sentenced to 300 hours of "community payback" after a senseless attack on a young man.
In the study, three researchers at the University of Utah tracked down 181 state judges from 19 states who agreed to read a fictional case file and assign a sentence to an offender, "Jonathan Donahue," convicted of beating a restaurant manager senseless with the butt of a gun.
According to Wittgenstein, sentences of ordinary language that cannot be constructed by logical operations on atomic sentences are, strictly speaking, senseless, though they may have some function other than representing the world.
