To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and forms of life as inseparable phenomena, do forms of life then provide any certainty? On the other hand, do we automatically relapse into relativism once we doubt certainties? Which formal structures underlie certainty and doubt? The book is intended to answer these questions.

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2013

ISBN

9783110321920

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophical Criticism

CONTENTS
Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
Taking Language Games Seriously
Is there Certainty in our Form of Life?
Certainty and Forms of Life
‘Hinge Propositions’ and Radical Skepticism
Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty’s two Levels of Justification
Über Gewißheit: a Textbook for Psychologists?
Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty
Was Wittgenstein a Relativist?
Language Meets and Measures Reality
Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein’s Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations §§198-202
Russian Matters for Wittgenstein
Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci
Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences
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