Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and His Relevance to Modern ThoughtLaurence Goldstein gives a straightforward and lively account of some of the central themes of Wittgenstein's writings on meaning, mind, and mathematics. He does this both by drawing on Wittgenstein's work to show how his thinking developed over time and by helping the reader gain some impression of what a strange character Wittgenstein was--for how he was is intimately related to how and what he wrote. |
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... late ' periods working on the subject , felt that his own most lasting contribution to philosophy lay in this area , and treated general topics within philosophy often more perspicuously and illuminatingly in his writings on mathematics ...
... late ' periods working on the subject , felt that his own most lasting contribution to philosophy lay in this area , and treated general topics within philosophy often more perspicuously and illuminatingly in his writings on mathematics ...
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... late writ- ings , was right about just about everything . ( Adrian Moore astutely points out that to toe the Wittgensteinian line too willingly will often mean failing to feel the allure , which Wittgenstein himself felt , for the views ...
... late writ- ings , was right about just about everything . ( Adrian Moore astutely points out that to toe the Wittgensteinian line too willingly will often mean failing to feel the allure , which Wittgenstein himself felt , for the views ...
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... late . This strategy is useful for illustrating the nature of the radical difference between the early style of his thinking and the later . Getting clear on some central doctrines doesn't exactly guarantee that the rest will simply ...
... late . This strategy is useful for illustrating the nature of the radical difference between the early style of his thinking and the later . Getting clear on some central doctrines doesn't exactly guarantee that the rest will simply ...
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... late writings will not make any sense at all without some preliminary intercourse with the Tractatus . Why ? Because the late works are in large part a reaction against the preconceptions that informed Wittgenstein's ear- lier ...
... late writings will not make any sense at all without some preliminary intercourse with the Tractatus . Why ? Because the late works are in large part a reaction against the preconceptions that informed Wittgenstein's ear- lier ...
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