dc.contributor.author | Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-16T12:01:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-16T12:01:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Moyal-Sharrock , D 2007 , ' The Good Sense of Nonsense: a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus as nonself-repudiating ' , Philosophy , vol. 82 , no. 1 , pp. 147-177 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819107319062 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8191 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 186315 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: c7008ac0-5ed7-4c17-98c0-c0bdd3a0bae0 | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/3839 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 62149119580 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8882 | |
dc.description | Original article can be found at: http://journals.cambridge.org/ Copyright The Royal Institute of Philosophy. DOI: 10.1017/S0031819107319062 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper aims to return Wittgenstein's Tractatus to its original stature by showing that it is not the self-repudiating work commentators take it to be, but the consistent masterpiece its author believed it was at the time he wrote it. The Tractatus has been considered self-repudiating for two reasons: it refers to its own propositions as ‘nonsensical’, and it makes what Peter Hacker calls ‘paradoxical ineffability claims’ – that is, its remarks are themselves instances of what it says cannot be said. I address the first problem by showing that, on Wittgenstein's view, nonsense is primarily a technically descriptive, not a defamatory, qualification, and is not indicative of Wittgenstein rejecting or disavowing his own Tractarian ‘propositions’. I then dissolve the paradoxical ineffability claim by making a technical distinction, based on Wittgenstein's own theory and practice, between saying and speaking. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Philosophy | |
dc.title | The Good Sense of Nonsense: a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus as nonself-repudiating | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819107319062 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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