This book claims that philosophy exists not to resolve contradictions, but to clarify the state of affairs that existed before a contradiction is resolved.
This book claims that philosophy exists not to resolve contradictions, but to clarify the state of affairs that existed before a contradiction is resolved. The claim that "if a lion could talk, we could not understand him" appears in this book, which labels the Cartesian view of private mental states as "a grammatical fiction." This book distinguishes between "seeing that" and "seeing as" using the example of a "duckrabbit." It begins with an attack on the theory of language presented in Augustine's Confessions. It argues against the possibility of a private language and defines words' meanings by their use, attacking its author's earlier "picture theory of meaning." For 10 points, name this posthumous magnum opus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This book claims that philosophy exists not to resolve contradictions, but to clarify the state of affairs that existed before a contradiction is resolved.
Philosophical Investigations [or Philosophische Untersuchungen]