Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a by James Connelly

By James Connelly

This publication assesses the respective customers of 2 competing methodological methods to the research of that means and communique, to boot fact and inference, each one figuring prominently in the analytic culture of philosophy of language.

The first, ‘logistical’ technique is characterised by way of the employment of de-compositional logical research designed to resolve a variety of theoretically troublesome semantic and logical puzzles. The consultant proponents of this strategy are the 3 nice early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein).

The moment, ‘phenomenological’ technique, against this, in its place advocates cautious inspection and designated description of our genuine linguistic practices, besides normal beneficial properties of the standard situations, and lived reports, during which they're located. the purpose of such description is then to dissolve the aforementioned puzzles through exhibiting them to derive from key misunderstandings of those practices and conditions. the main proponent this is the later Wittgenstein.

Expanding upon the paintings of the later Wittgenstein, this ebook argues that issues in regards to the nature of following a rule, and deriving from the impossibility of non-public languages, decisively suggest the phenomenological over the logistical method, specifically simply because those issues call for that we establish linguistic meanings with the disciplined makes use of of phrases inside of public, and proto-typically social, linguistic practices.

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