Bridging the Gulf between Wittgenstein's Works: A Matter of Showing

Mark Sultana

Bridging the Gulf between Wittgenstein's Works: A Matter of Showing

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12/2 - Fall 2007, pages 207-225

Date of online publication: 15 novembre 2007

Date of publication: 01 novembre 2007

Abstract

In this paper, I take three snapshots of Wittgenstein's philosophical work in order to jot a few notes on the issue of the continuity in his philosophy. I use Wittgenstein's distinction between what can be 'said' and what can only be “shown” in order to highlight Wittgenstein's continual insistence that our basic relation with reality is seamless. I propose that Wittgenstein holds, throughout his philosophical career, that our thinking does not stop short of the world. In brief, I suggest that Wittgenstein would note that our natural history is largely what the mediaevals would call second nature.

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Sultana, Mark. “Bridging the Gulf between Wittgenstein's Works: A Matter of Showing.” Forum Philosophicum 12, no. 2 (2007): 207–25. doi:10.35765/forphil.2007.1202.17.

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