Pictures and perception in the Tractatus

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pictures and perception in the Tractatus

Original language description

I engage with an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s picture theory by Arthur Danto. According to Danto, Wittgenstein introduced the picture theory to exploit that for some pictures perceptual and pictorial competence coincide. Linguistic understanding could thus be explained on the basis of basic perceptual abilities. Using the example of the Tractatus, Danto’s aim is to illustrate that there can be no purely mimetic language. I argue that Danto’s critique is not applicable to the Tractatus as his interpretation does not square with many of its core claims, and that Danto misunderstands the intent of the Tractatus as explaining how we understand. Therefore, we need not ascribe the controversial theses on perception which follow from Danto’s diagnosis to the early Wittgenstein.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Beiträge der Österreichischen Wittgenstein Gesellschaft

ISSN

1022-3398

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

srpen

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

35-37

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