Thought's footing : a theme in Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations / Charles Travis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Travis, Charles, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Philosophische Untersuchungen.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Other Title:

Theme in Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's.The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding that there are indefinitely

Contents:

Mastery

Acquaintance

Hardness

Determination

Transcendence

Harmony.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-214) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-956237-7

1-281-15487-3

9786611154875

0-19-153760-8

1-4356-1901-3

OCLC:

560558267