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9780470777060

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470777060

  • ISBN10:

    0470777060

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality - topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends. Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic. Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions. Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Philosophical Background to On Certainty:
On Certainty - A New Topic?
Saying and Describing
Concept-Formation
'Seeing' and 'Thinking'
Thought and Language
Picturing Reality
What Makes Language Language?
The Logical and the Empirical
On Certainty - A Work in Logic
Discussions of On Certainty:
Two Conversations with Wittgenstein on Moore
Preface to On Certainty
On Certainty's Main Theme
Induction
Wittgenstein's Propositions and Foundations
Language as Emerging from Instinctive Behaviour
Words and Things
Not Worth Mentioning?
Certainty and Madness
Comparisons Between On Certainty and Wittgenstein's Earlier Work
Some Passages Relating to Doubt and Certainty in On Certainty.
Afterword: D. Z. Phillips: Rhees on Reading On Certainty.
Organizing the Notes on On Certainty
Groundlessness and Language-games
Searching for Primary Links Between Language and Reality
Seeing
Logic and Practice
Pictures, Propositions and Reality
Forms of Life
Practices and Parallels
Is the Title On Certainty a Happy One?
Is On Certainty a Polemic against Moore?
Is Wittgenstein's Main Interest in Moore's Propositions the Nature of Nonsense?
Does Wittgenstein Say that the Propositions he is Interested in Form a Class, and Does he
Say the Same of All of Them?
Are Wittgenstein's Propositions Context-free?
What is the Connection between Wittgenstein's Propositions and Logic?
Is Wittgenstein Appealing to Primitive, Pre-linguistic Reactions as the Basis of our Language-games?
What is Meant by the Sureness in Our Language-games?
How are Our Conclusions Related to the Notions of a Form of Life or World-picture? How do Wittgenstein's Conclusions Differ from Some Classical and Contemporary Views of Our Relation to the World?
Rhees's Development of Wittgenstein's Concerns
Notes
Index
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