Miracles, Hinges, and Grammar in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty
In §513 of On Certainty Wittgenstein asks “What if something really unheard-of happened?” But with this question he is not asking us to make a forecast, a prediction, or some sort of empirico-psychological prophecy about our possible reactions. As I will attempt to show, the question regarding the u...
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2016
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Jahr: 2016, Band: 6, Heft: 2/3, Seiten: 143-164 |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951, Über Gewissheit
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/ Erkenntnistheorie
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Miracle
hinges
grammar
Moore
philosophical method
experience
mistake
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| Zusammenfassung: | In §513 of On Certainty Wittgenstein asks “What if something really unheard-of happened?” But with this question he is not asking us to make a forecast, a prediction, or some sort of empirico-psychological prophecy about our possible reactions. As I will attempt to show, the question regarding the unheard-of is part of Wittgenstein’s philosophical method—which is to say, it is one of the instruments with which he combats what he sees as the principal source of the confusions of philosophy: mistaking the grammatical for the empirical or, as he also says, the conceptual for the factual. In this sense the question regarding the unheard-of can shed some light on the grammatical status of what he calls “hinges.” |
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| ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
| Enthält: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-00603005 |
