By Gordon P. Baker
This can be a selection of the foremost articles written via well known Wittgenstein student, G.P. Baker, on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, released posthumously.
- Following Baker’s dying in 2002, the quantity has been edited by way of collaborator and companion, Katherine Morris.
- Contains articles formerly basically on hand in different languages, and one formerly unpublished paper.
- Completely specified from the widely-known paintings Baker did with P.M.S. Hacker within the Analytical remark at the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishing, 1980-1996).
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TS 220, §6 ¼ PI §5) This procedure parallels bringing someone to notice a new aspect of the duck–rabbit diagram by surrounding the figure with other picture-rabbits (cf. LW §165). ’ Provided that we are prepared to call ‘perspicuous representations of our grammatical rules’, inter alia, whatever objects of comparison serve to make perspicuous to us (to bring us to command a clear view of ) ‘the grammar of our language’, there seems to be a cast-iron case for calling some language-games ‘perspicuous representations of our grammar’.
Although there is not one single method which can be mechanically applied to dissolve every philosophical problem, there is a general strategy exhibited in all the various therapies, and the possibility of mastering it and transferring it to new problems gives substance to the conviction that the correct treatment of each problem casts light on the correct treatment of all (Z §465). The unity of the method turns on the application to grammar and language of the concept of an aspect (and of the related concepts of seeing an aspect and being blind to an aspect).
Wittgenstein tried to liberate our thinking from enslavement to particular analogies by bringing to light other analogies which are equally well supported as the ones of which we unconsciously make use (TS 220, §99). A simile belongs to our structure; but we cannot draw any conclusions from it; it does not lead us beyond itself, but it must always remain as a simile. – We can draw no conclusions from it. This is so if we compare a proposition with a picture . . g. the calculus of multiplication.