Wittgenstein Essays

Modality and the Iron Triangle Analytic philosophy had major influences on theories of meaning and the discussion of language. In this paper, I will discuss some of the most significant people in this period and analyze the success or lack of success for each theory in the period of analytic philosophy. The names of discussion are Bertrand Russell, Alfred Ayer, and Saul Kripke. While other influencers of analytic philosophy certainly exist, I will focus on these authors. Each writer was a founder

6. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British Philosopher who worked in logic and mathematics. He was born in Austria on April 26th 1889, into one of the wealthiest families in Europe at the time. He believed in charity after suffering from a deep depression after WW1, and he gave away his entire fortune to his siblings, with three of this brothers then committing suicide, and Wittgenstein briefly considered joining them. Many people regard Wittgenstein as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century

Introduction: Here I want to show the comparison between Indian philosopher Bhartṛhari and Western philosopher Wittgenstein they deal with language and reality. According to them that language and reality depend on individual, a person can conceive two types of relationships internal and external. Actually what we think about it, language and reality are internally related is to conceive language as necessary means of cognizing any reality. The world can be different than what we perceive or describe

Hayley Berkowitz Linguistic Structure: Wittgenstein’s view about the Nature, Limit & Function of Logical Constants & Quantifiers. 2. For Ludwig Wittgenstein to really provide us with a thorough account of propositions he needs to explain the nature of logical constants. Wittgenstein was a thinker who remained skeptical as to whether logical constants could be representational. For him, (negations, conditionals, connectives, conjuncts, disjuncts, etc) are not constituents of the proposition but

whereas Wittgenstein characteristically describes skepticism as being "palpably senseless" (Wittgenstein 187). Fully understanding Wittgenstein's meaning requires an analysis of the role of skepticism in both Russel and Wittgenstein's work, but ultimately one can say with relative confidence that Wittgenstein is largely successful in dissolving the problem of skepticism, in that he is able to demonstrate how the notion of skepticism falls within a category of thought exercise that Wittgenstein sees

Ludwig Wittgenstein explored language, using words to communicate ideas and feelings to one another. Expressing what one wants others to understand is nearly impossible. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, aims to communicate the terror of the Holocaust and what he went through. But he says that there are no words to describe it or communicate to others. According to Wittgenstein, Wiesel is right. He will not be able to make others understand what he went through and other people do not hold the ability

that plays a role in the way we come to know things. According to contextualists, language, more so the context in which it is used, also plays a role in the way establish knowledge. In this paper we will focus on two contextual theorists, Ludwig Wittgenstein and David Lewis. We will discuss their theories and few skepticisms about their theories. A major contextualist claim is that our attributions of knowledge can vary from person to person based on the user’s context. The way we utter sentences,

right and wrong, seem to vary between one person and another. To philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and William David Ross, the solutions to these differing views are simple. The good and evil decision- as well as the motivation to act in whichever way- were viewed by Wittgenstein as being relied upon by judgements of relative value while Ross saw it as being related to this prima facia duty. To Wittgenstein, there is an importance in the judgements of relative value as they are a representation

In his Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein states that language is by nature external and community driven, therefore the notion of a private language is impossible. Wittgenstein argues that in a private language, “the words of this language are to refer to what the speaker can know- to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot understand the language”(PI 243). Wittgenstein contends that among other reasons private language is flawed in that there is no way that the speech

Aspect Perception and Aspect Dawning: A Normative Reading of Wittgenstein By chiefly drawing on part II of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (PI), I will advance the claim that his concepts of aspect perception and aspect dawning have ethical implications. These ethical implications are minimally worth considering, or maximally something that holds value. This paper is divided into three sections. Section one begins by defining aspect-perception and aspect-dawning, and then proceeds