In a letter to Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein complained that the British philosopher did not understand the main message of the Tractatus. He explained that “the main point is the theory of what can be expressed by propositions—i.e., by language . . . and what cannot be expressed by propositions, but only shown; which, I believe, is the cardinal problem of philosophy” (qtd. in Stern 69–70). Th...

Hegel is not an author who plays a starring role in Cavell’s work like that of Austin, Wittgenstein, or Emerson. Cavell mentions him rarely, and almost always passing. This hardly surprising. Given draws as heavily he does upon Kant, whom regularly attacks, Kierkegaard, attacks Hegel, one might expect Hegel’s more important claims ideas would be uncongenial to Cavell, incompatible with the main...

As observações dessa pesquisa propõem como hipótese de trabalho a perspectiva que o Princípio Ockham pode ser identificado na estrutura do Tractatus logico-philosophicus Wittgenstein. O texto aborda aspectos da lógica e linguagem filosofia analítica, estabelece uma intermediação permite tratar com possibilidade aproximação entre tractariana. Os resultados contidos nas explicitadas nesse apontam...

Este artigo discute as contribuições do segundo Wittgenstein para uma discussão sobre democracias contemporâneas, a partir da leitura política das noções wittgensteinianas contidas nas Investigações filosóficas e no Da Certeza feita pela teórica Chantal Mouffe. Mostraremos que interpretação mouffeana é relevante compreensão dimensão agonística contemporâneas. O texto divide-se em duas partes: p...

In the early thirties of twentieth century Wittgenstein advanced his new conception language based on idea rule following. It is less known that at same time (and as far I can tell, independently) Ajdukijewicz developed himself an meaning related to following activity, which he used in defence radical conventionalism. Tadeusz Czarnecki analyses papers two philosophers both published 1934, and o...

The Philosophy of Language has a history almost as long as the history of Philosophy itself. Plato’s Cratylus and Sophist, and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and Prior Analytics, contain important reflections on topics such as the conventionality of language, the subject–predicate structure, valid inference and its relations with the structure of language and thought, truth, or the ontological ...