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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402041128
• ISBN13: 9781402041129
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"