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On Tractarian law [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
"'It is clear", wrote Wittgenstein in the Tractatus, "that ethics has nothing to do with punishment and reward in the usual sense of the terms" (6.422).
Smith, Barry
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Kriesel and Wittgenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Georg Kreisel (15 September 1923 - 1 March 2015) was a formidable mathematical logician during a formative period when the subject was becoming a sophisticated field at the crossing of mathematics and logic.
Kanamori, Akihiro
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A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Remarkably, the theological discourse surrounding Hans Frei and postliberal theology has continued for nearly thirty years since Frei's death. This is due not only to the complex and provocative character of Frei's work, nor only to his influence upon an
Springs, Jason A.
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Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify and explain three kinds of bedrock in moral thought. The term “bedrock,” as introduced by Wittgenstein in §217 of the Philosophical Investigations, stands for the end of a chain of reasoning. We affirm that some chains of moral reasoning do indeed end with certainty.
Konstantin Deininger, Herwig Grimm
wiley   +1 more source

Usar la filosofía de Wittgenstein para eliminar conceptos erróneos en la práctica de la danza. Un enfoque cuádruple [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A fourfold use of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy in order to tackle fundamental conceptual misconceptions in the domain of dance practice is proposed: the extension to dance of the insights of his remarks on other arts, the application to dance ...
Carmona Escalera, Carla
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
wiley   +1 more source

Wittgenstein's Attitudes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
What's wrong with modalities in (Wittgenstein 1922)? In (Suszko 1968), the writer argued that "Wittgenstein was somewhat confused and wrong in certain points.
Schang, Fabien
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The Unity of a Tractarian Fact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It is not immediately clear from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus how to connect his idea there of an object with the logical ontologies of Frege and Russell. Toward clarification on this matter, this paper compares Russell’s and Wittgenstein’s versions of the ...
Johnston, Colin
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
wiley   +1 more source

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