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Wittgenstein on Solipsism in the 1930s: Private Pains, Private Languages, and Two Uses of ‘I’

, 2018
In the early-to-mid 1930s, Wittgenstein investigated solipsism via the philosophy of language. In this paper, I want to reopen Wittgenstein's ‘grammatical’ examination of solipsism.
Tim Button, Button, Tim, Button, T
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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.
Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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Presupposition and implicature in song lyrics Pamungkas' album: Solipsism [PDF]

, 2021
This study discusses presuppositions and implicatures in song lyrics on the album Solipsism by Pamungkas. This study aims to identify the types of presuppositions and to interpret the implicatures of presuppositions contained in the song lyrics on the ...
Balqis, Salsyabila
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Subject in Tractatus according to David Pears [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2013
Subjectivism is viewed as one of the most fundamental underpinnings of modern philosophy. In modern philosophy, subject takes up a new position in human knowledge.
M Hoseinzadeh Yazdi, AK Ahmadi Afranjami
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.
ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Entre o dizer e o mostrar: o lugar da secção do solipsismo na estrutura argumentativa do Tractatus

Princípios, 2011
The distinction between saying and showing is central in the development of critical language made by the early Wittgenstein. Assuming that the numbering system of the Tractatus points (despite all the controversies) to certain argumentative structure of
Gerson Júnior
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Aporie naturalizmu w lingwistyce [PDF]

Studia Translatorica
The subject of the lecture are the aporias resulting from naturalistic paradigms in linguistics. The fact that in linguistic research scholars rely exclusively on empirical evidence is nothing reprehensible – it is worth mentioning the recently ...
Grzegorz Pawłowski
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The fourth‐dimensional ontology of sankofa epistemology

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page S82-S91, September 2025.
Abstract Debates about the metaphysical and ontological status of the principles of noncontradiction, excluded middle, identity, sufficient reason, and the identity of indiscernibles raise logical and substantive issues of interest in Western philosophy.
Nkiru Nzegwu
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Solipsism and philosophy of mathematics: intuitionists compared

, 2020
This paper will consider L.E.J. Brouwer, A. Heyting and G.F.C. Griss as the first generation of Dutch intuitionists to look at the interrelationship between solipsism and mathematics.
Franchella
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The First Emperor: Solipsism, Power and the State☆

, 2022
It is not usually thought that Wittgenstein has much to show us about political power and the state. This essay disputes this claim by showing how the Mausoleum and career of the First Emperor can be understood in terms of political solipsism, so ...
Tony Lynch, Lynch, Anthony
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