Wittgenstein, Language and Information: Back to the Rough Ground!

by David Blair

Book Overview

"The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the con?ict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The con?ict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. --We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048170451
• ISBN13: 9789048170456
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"