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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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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Philosophy Faculty
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Routledge
Host title:
Wittgenstein and Naturalism
Publication date:
2018-01-17
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1138236861
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9781138236868
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2017-07-11

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