Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
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Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal
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Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110321920
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AporiaISSN
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1
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CHF 124.20
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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226
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To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and forms of life as inseparable phenomena, do forms of life then provide any certainty? On the other hand, do we automatically relapse into relativism once we doubt certainties? Which formal structures underlie certainty and doubt? The book is intended to answer these questions.
CONTENTS
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Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
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Taking Language Games Seriously
13
Is there Certainty in our Form of Life?
25
Certainty and Forms of Life
41
‘Hinge Propositions’ and Radical Skepticism
53
Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty’s two Levels of Justification
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Über Gewißheit: a Textbook for Psychologists?
75
Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty
91
Was Wittgenstein a Relativist?
109
Language Meets and Measures Reality
121
Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein’s Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations §§198-202
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Russian Matters for Wittgenstein
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Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci
181
Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein
203
Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences
213
Abbreviations
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