Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the TraditionWittgenstein’s Color Exclusion and Johnson’s Determinable

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition: Wittgenstein’s Color Exclusion and... [The paper aims at comparing Wittgenstein’s discussion of color exclusion in his (1929) to Johnson’s doctrine of determinable and determinate expounded in his (1921). I first (Sects. §2–§4) summarize Wittgenstein’s developments about the incompatibility of elementary propositions and about the logic of color statements. In the second part (Sects. §5–§7), I present and discuss Johnson’s doctrine in relation to Wittgenstein’s development. In a third conclusive moment (Sect. §8), drawing on a early work of Prior, I argue that the distinction made by Wittgenstein and Johnson between predication and determination should be looked at from a long term historical perspective.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the TraditionWittgenstein’s Color Exclusion and Johnson’s Determinable

Download PDF
25 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/early-analytic-philosophy-new-perspectives-on-the-tradition-IILXX0XxF7
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-24212-5
Pages
257 –282
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-24214-9_10
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[The paper aims at comparing Wittgenstein’s discussion of color exclusion in his (1929) to Johnson’s doctrine of determinable and determinate expounded in his (1921). I first (Sects. §2–§4) summarize Wittgenstein’s developments about the incompatibility of elementary propositions and about the logic of color statements. In the second part (Sects. §5–§7), I present and discuss Johnson’s doctrine in relation to Wittgenstein’s development. In a third conclusive moment (Sect. §8), drawing on a early work of Prior, I argue that the distinction made by Wittgenstein and Johnson between predication and determination should be looked at from a long term historical perspective.]

Published: Jan 22, 2016

Keywords: Color Statement; Atomic Proposition; Degree Statement; Elementary Proposition; Determinate Character

There are no references for this article.