Doubtful Certainties

Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-032160-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padilla Gálvez, Jesús

Gaffal, Margit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
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