Name: wittgenstein ` s on certainty: there - like our life
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Author: rush rhees, d. z. phillips
ISBN: 9781405134248

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wittgenstein ` s on certainty: there - like our life

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

wiley-blackwell

Author

rush rhees, d. z. phillips

Pages

208.00

ISBN

1405134240

ISBN13

9781405134248

Synopsis "wittgenstein ` s on certainty: there - like our life"

even wittgensteins admirers have been puzzled by his last work, on certainty. some even regard it as a lapse at the end of a distinguished career, or as a late epistemological interest that remained undeveloped. rush rhees, a close friend of wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how wittgensteins on certainty concerns logic, language and reality topics that occupied wittgenstein from early in his career. from his earliest work on the nature of propositions, to his interest in on certainty with the sureness in our language-games, wittgenstein questions what it means to say something. he emphasizes the importance not of that which cannot be questioned, but of what we do not question in our thought and action. in this book, rhees brings out the continuity in wittgensteins thought, and the radical character of his conclusions. in explicating this text, and demonstrating its continuity with wittgensteins earlier work, rhees has done a great service that will be of profound interest to students and scholars of wittgenstein for generations to come. rheess comments are introduced by d. z. phillips, who writes a substantial and illuminating afterword that discusses current scholarship surrounding on certainty, and its relationship to rheess work on this subject.