THE SAYING / SHOWING DISTINCTION AGAINST THE NEW WITTGENSTEIN

Authors

  • Bernardo Alonso Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v15i2.12971

Keywords:

showing, saying, analyticity, independency, contingency, picture theory.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to preserve the saying / showing tractarian distinction from the New Wittgenstein reading, which defends, among other things, that the Tractatus contains only strings of plain nonsense. The author presents a brief exposition of the language system of the Tractatus. Than he tries to interrelate three core theses, the analyticity theses, the contingency theses and the independency theses as unified by the picture theory. The latter provides the account of an elementary proposition, subject to the constraint that a proposition must show its sense. This work recognizes (without evaluating) the late Wittgenstein's objections, but also recognizes that those objections relate to important philosophical theses, not to pure nonsense.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Bernardo Alonso, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorando em filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, com doutorado sanduíche no grupo de filosofia da informação das universidades de Oxford e Hertfordshire.

Published

2011-04-07

How to Cite

ALONSO, B. THE SAYING / SHOWING DISTINCTION AGAINST THE NEW WITTGENSTEIN. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 15, n. 2, p. 129–160, 2011. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v15i2.12971. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/12971. Acesso em: 27 nov. 2024.

Issue

Section

Artigos Originais