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I know Wittgenstein repudiated the Tractatus, but did he ever alight on another vision of the world & the limits of what can be expressed? Or was 'Late Wittgens
by lordleft 5y ago
I know Wittgenstein repudiated the Tractatus, but did he ever alight on another vision of the world & the limits of what can be expressed? Or was 'Late Wittgenstein' primarily a more bounded project concerned with the philosophy of language?
- nabla9 5y agoHe wrote a book after Tractatus. It's called Philosophical Investigations. There he sets up, among many other things, the whole "meaning is use" theory. One of the most influential books in the last century together with Tractatus.
- jhickok 5y agoRepudiated is a bit strong. In some sense Wittgenstein hated everything he had written. However, Wittgenstein did believe that his friend had shown the system he laid out in Tractatus as unworkable: https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2007-8/43904/_HANDOUTS/tractatus-color-incompatibility.pdf https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2007-8/43904/_HANDOUTS/... The so-called "late" period his scope was no more bounded than the early Wittgenstein, but he changed his method of analysis from strict conceptual analysis to something more conversational. His study of language is not really interesting for what it contributed to philosophy of language, but because of the implications to the methods of philosophy itself.