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Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.





  • Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
  • Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic.
  • Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.
  • Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.

Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/05/2005
    ISBN13: 9781405134248, 978-1405134248
    ISBN10: 1405134240

    Number of Pages: 208

    Description

    Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.





    • Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
    • Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic.
    • Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.
    • Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.

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