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dc.contributor.authorMoyal-Sharrock, Daniele
dc.contributor.editorGreve, Sebastian
dc.contributor.editorMácha, Jakub
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-28T19:02:18Z
dc.date.available2016-11-28T19:02:18Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-19
dc.identifier.citationMoyal-Sharrock , D 2015 , Wittgenstein, No Linguistic Idealist . in S Greve & J Mácha (eds) , Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language . 1 edn , Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 117-40 . https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472540
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dc.descriptionMoyal-Sharrock, D., 'Wittgenstein, No Linguistic Idealist' in Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language, Sunday Greve, S. & Macha, J., Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
dc.description.abstractAgainst the position that our conceptual schemes are evolving attempts to track invisible conceptual seams already in nature (scientific realism), Wittgenstein holds that it is our language that is responsible for those seams. Language does not follow, or attempt to follow, an existing, though inconspicuous, outline in nature, which it is science’s business to render more conspicuous; language is itself responsible for the outline. This insistence on the ‘autonomous’ creativity of language has earned Wittgenstein the charge of ‘linguistic idealism’. This chapter argues that the importance of language in the constitution of our conceptual schemes does not preclude the involvement of reality, both in that language is itself ‘reality-soaked’ – that is, embedded in and conditioned by reality –, and in that its creations are an integral part of human reality. The chapter concludes by touching on the creativity of literary language with an appeal to F. R. Leavis and Merleau-Ponty.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.relation.ispartofWittgenstein and the Creativity of Language
dc.subjectWittgenstein
dc.subjectlinguistic idealism
dc.subjectcertainty
dc.subjectMerleau-Ponty
dc.titleWittgenstein, No Linguistic Idealisten
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionPhilosophy
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