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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, 1
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IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the
secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced
a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have
felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but
who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein
the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I
happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas
of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters?
Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of
his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he is saying?
A partial reason is outlined in the first essay of this volume.
Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book
drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to
get clear about. He was even too impatient to explain in full his
earlier solutions, often merely referring to them casually as it
were in a shorthand notation. For one important instance, in The
Brown Book, Wittgenstein had explained in some detail what
name-object relationships amount to in his view. There he offers
both an explanation of what his problem is and an account of his
own view illustrated by means of specific examples of
language-games. But when he raises the same question again in
Philosophical Investigations I, sec.
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