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A summary of On Certainty in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Selected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Selected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Wittgenstein’s writings in the last two years of his life (after May 1949) never advanced to the typescript stage. In these writings three main themes can be clearly distinguished. The one which is treated most fully concerns knowledge and certainty, and what Wittgenstein wrote on this theme was published under the title On Certaintyin 1969 ...
This is the number of times it is said that Wittgenstein is concerned with what he called ‘the peculiar role’ played by certain empirical propositions in our discourse.
An accessible guidebook to the themes and arguments presented in On Certainty; Takes into account the historical context and the philosophical topics explored by Wittgenstein; Provides close and careful scrutiny of individual parts, sections, and statements of this important philosophical work
In this chapter we will begin to explore Wittgenstein’s position with respect to scepticism and common sense. We will start by considering his account of the use of the verb ‘to know’, as well as of other doxastic expressions, such as ‘to believe’ and ‘to be certain’. Many of the entries
give us a glimpse of a sustained exchange between Wittgenstein and a real-life interlocutor; they contain a defence by Wittgenstein of the idea that a word’s use can illuminate its meaning; and they provide evidence of Wittgenstein’s philo-sophical engagement with the topic of certainty, and with Moore’s thought on it,
The penultimate chapter argues that for Wittgenstein, and in truth, there is such a thing as certainty and that it "stands in a foundational relationship to the language game" (141). Stroll believes that Wittgenstein has two different accounts of that foundation: "The idea that some prop-
