Wittgenstein-- rules, grammar, and necessity : essays and exegesis of 185-242 / / G.P. Baker & P.M.S. Hacker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019610503321
• Autore: Baker Gordon P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 9786613204769; 9781444315691; 1444315692; 9781444315707; 1444315706; 9781283204767; 1283204762
• Edizione: [2nd, extensively rev. ed. /]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: An analytical commentary on the philosophical investigations ; ; 2
• Altri autori (Persone): HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)
• Disciplina: 109.2; 192
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Language and languages - Philosophy; Semantics (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Volume 2; Abbreviations; ANALYTICAL COMMENTARY; I Two fruits upon one tree; 1. The continuation of the Early Draft into philosophy of mathematics; 2. Hidden isomorphism; 3. A common methodology; 4. The flatness of philosophical grammar; FOLLOWING A RULE 185-242; Introduction to the exegesis; II Rules and grammar; 1. The Tractatus and rules of logical syntax; 2. From logical syntax to philosophical grammar; 3. Rules and rule-formulations; 4. Philosophy and grammar; 5. The scope of grammar; 6. Some morals; EXEGESIS 185-8; III Accord with a rule; 1. Initial compass bearings2. Accord and the harmony between language and reality; 3. Rules of inference and logical machinery; 4. Formulations and explanations of rules by examples; 5. Interpretations, fitting and grammar; 6. Further misunderstandings; EXEGESIS 189-202; IV Following rules, mastery of techniques, and practices; 1. Following a ; rule; 2. Practices and techniques; 3. Doing the right thing and doing the same thing; 4. Privacy and the community view; 5. On not digging below bedrock; V Private linguists and 'private linguists' - Robinson Crusoe sails again; 1. Is a language necessarily shared with a community of speakers?2. Innate knowledge of a language; 3. Robinson Crusoe sails again; 4. Solitary cavemen and monologuists; 5. Private languages and 'private languages'; 6. Overview; EXEGESIS 203-37; VI Agreement in definitions, judgements and forms of life; 1. The scaffolding of facts; 2. The role of our nature; 3. Forms of life; 4. Agreement: consensus of human beings and their actions; EXEGESIS 238-42; VII Grammar and necessity; 1. Setting the stage; 2. Leitmotifs; 3. External guidelines; 4. Necessary propositions and norms of representation5. Concerning the truth and falsehood of necessary propositions; 6. What necessary truths are about; 7. Illusions of correspondence: ideal objects, kinds of reality and ultra-physics; 8. The psychology and epistemology of the a priori; (i) Knowledge; (ii) Belief; (iii) Certainty; (iv) Surprise; (v) Discoveries and conjectures; (vi) Compulsion; 9. Propositions of logic and laws of thought; 10. Alternative forms of representation; 11. The arbitrariness of grammar; 12. A kinship to the non-arbitrary; 13. Proof in mathematics; 14. ConventionalismIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-followingIncludes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein's conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity