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Sensations, natural properties, and the private language argument
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Wittgenstein’s philosophy involves a general anti-platonism about properties or standards of similarity. On his view, what it is for one thing to have the same property as another is not dictated by reality itself; it depends on our classificatory practices and the standards of similarity they embody. Wittgenstein’s anti-platonism plays an important role in the private language sections and in his discussion of the conceptual problem of other minds. In sharp contrast to Wittgenstein’s view...
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Host title:
- Wittgenstein and Naturalism
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-17
- ISBN-10:
- 1138236861
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138236868
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- 2018
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315301594
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