TY - JOUR
T1 - A von Wright Error and Wittgenstein’s Heracliteanism
T2 - Comments on Edwards-McKie’s ‘The Cosmic Fragment’
AU - Venturinha, Nuno
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147240/PT#
UID/FIL/00183/2013
PY - 2016/2/20
Y1 - 2016/2/20
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Article
SN - 1868-7431
VL - 7
SP - 191
EP - 200
JO - Wittgenstein-Studien (Walter de Gruyter)
JF - Wittgenstein-Studien (Walter de Gruyter)
IS - 1
ER -