Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences?

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-27569-3_9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences?

Original language description

A paradox, according to Wittgenstein, is something surprising that is taken out of its context. Thus, one way of dealing with paradoxical sentences is to imagine the missing context of use. Wittgenstein formulates what I call the paradigm paradox: ‘one sentence can never describe the paradigm in another, unless it ceases to be a paradigm.’ (PG, p.346) There are several instances of this paradox scattered throughout Wittgenstein’s writings. I argue that this paradox is structurally equivalent to Russell’s paradox. The above quotation is Wittgenstein’s version of the vicious circle principle which counteracts the paradox. The prohibition Wittgenstein describes is, however, limited to a certain language-game. Finally, I argue that there is a structural analogy between a noun being employed as a self-membered set and a paradigmatic sample being included in or excluded from the set it generates. Paradoxical sentences are not prohibited forever; they can indicate a change in our praxis with a given paradigm.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-16680S" target="_blank" >GA19-16680S: Paradigmatic thinking: singularity, universality, self-reference</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Wittgensteinian (adj.): Looking at the World from the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy

ISBN

9783030275686

Number of pages of the result

12

Pages from-to

123-134

Number of pages of the book

560

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham, Switzerland

UT code for WoS chapter

000630349000011