文档介绍：THE UNITY OF WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY
SUNY SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY
e R. Lucas Jr., editor
THE UNITY OF
WITTGENSTEIN’S
PHILOSOPHY
Necessity,
Intelligibility,
and Normativity
By
José Medina
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Medina, José, 1968–
The unity of Wittgenstein’s philosophy : necessity, intelligibility, and
normativity / by José Medina
p. cm. —(SUNY series in philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5387-1 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5388-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889–1951. I. Title. II. Series.
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For my parents:
Concha and Joaquin
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1. Necessity and Intelligibility in the Tractatus 5
. Possibility and Necessity in the Tractatus 7
. What’s Color Got to Do with It? 13
. The Myth of ‘Hidden Bodies’ 21
Deflationism and Realism in the Tractatus 28
2. From Pictures to Yardsticks: The Colorful Transformations
of the Tractarian View of Language 31
Let the Phenomena Speak for Themselves! 32
. The Emergence of the Satzsystem Conception of Language 41
3. The Calculus View of Language