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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019829003321

Autore

Rhees Rush <1905-1989.>

Titolo

Wittgenstein's On certainty : there-- like our life / / Rush Rhees ; edited by D.Z. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003

ISBN

9786611310974

9781281310972

1281310972

9780470776247

0470776242

9780470777060

0470777060

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PhillipsD. Z (Dewi Zephaniah)

Disciplina

121/.63

Soggetti

Certainty

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 (p. [183]-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life; Contents; Preface; Part I The Philosophical Background to On Certainty; 1 On Certainty: A New Topic?; 2 Saying and Describing; 3 Concept-Formation; 4 'Seeing' and 'Thinking'; 5 Thought and Language; 6 Picturing Reality; 7 What Makes Language Language?; 8 The Logical and the Empirical; 9 On Certainty: A Work in Logic; Part II Discussion or On Certainty; 10 Two Conversations with Wittgenstein on Moore; 11 Preface to On Certainty; 12 On Certainty's Main Theme; 13 Induction; 14 Wittgenstein's Propositions and Foundations

15 Language as Emerging from Instinctive Behaviour16 Words and Things; 17 Not Worth Mentioning?; 18 Certainty and Madness; Appendix 1: Comparisons Between On Certainty and Wittgenstein's Earlier Work; Appendix 2: Some Passages Relating to Doubt and Certainty in On Certainty; Afterword: Rhees on Reading On Certainty; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. <l