Knowing How to Talk About What Cannot Be Said: Objectivity and Epistemic Locatedness

I take it that A. W. Moore is right when he said that ‘Wittgenstein was right: some things cannot be put into words. Moreover, some things that cannot be put into words are of the utmost philosophical importance’. There is, however, a constant threat of self-stultification whenever an attempt is mad...

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Main Author: Baiasu, Roxana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2014
In: Sophia
Year: 2014, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-229
Further subjects:B Action
B Knowing how
B Feminism
B Pamela Sue Anderson
B A. W. Moore
B Ineffable knowledge
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