Wittgenstein. Playing on the Edges of Language
This article aims to show the development of Wittgenstein’s conception of language from a pictorial model to a musical model. At first language is considered as a “means of representation” but in the second phase of Wittgenstein’s work the problem of understanding a proposition and the different sha...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Aisthesis |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/12853 |
| Summary: | This article aims to show the development of Wittgenstein’s conception of language from a pictorial model to a musical model. At first language is considered as a “means of representation” but in the second phase of Wittgenstein’s work the problem of understanding a proposition and the different shades of meaning supports an analogy with the musical dimension. In this perspective, Wittgenstein approaches the idea of language-game. |
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| ISSN: | 2035-8466 |