A von Wright Error and Wittgenstein’s Heracliteanism: Comments on Edwards-McKie’s ‘The Cosmic Fragment’

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Abstract

In this note I address two issues in Susan Edwards-McKie’s recent paper “The Cosmic Fragment: Härte des Logischen Zwangs und Unendliche Möglichkeit. Nachlass discoveries and Wittgenstein’s conception of generality and the infinite”. The first has to do with a “von Wright error” that Edwards- McKie found and that I show to have been ultimately corrected by von Wright. The second has to do with her interpretation of Wittgenstein’s reaction to Heraclitus’ idea that “everything flows”, one I interpret as purely grammatical and not as a substantial position in favour or against Heracliteanism, nor even as a third stance between this and Parmenideanism, as Edwards-McKie interestingly suggests.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)191-200
Number of pages10
JournalWittgenstein-Studien (Walter de Gruyter)
Volume7
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 20 Feb 2016

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