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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Fundamental aspects of Wittgenstein's later conception of language

Cranmer, R. January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
2

Moral powers : The importance of value preservation and moral forms of life in Wittgensteinian philosophical semantics and the Marxist theory of history

Holiday, C. A. D. January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
3

A critical study of the coherence of criterial reasoning

Tomassi, Paul January 1989 (has links)
No description available.
4

Paradox and the Dissolution of the Problem of Clarity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Jenkins, Anthony David 07 1900 (has links)
The present thesis emphasizes one among many themes developed in Wittgenstein's TLP, namely, the elucidation of the symbolism's of colloquial languages and logically canonical notations. In accordance with this emphasis, I have read the Tractatus as providing initially a solution and ultimately an attempted dissolution of one key philosophical problem, what I have called the problem of clarity: PC' The problem as to how the symbols of a language must stand to one another and to the rest of reality so that what can be said can be said clearly. The argument of the thesis, then, consists of two parts. The first shows how Wittgenstein's pictorial account of propositions proffers a solution to PC' under the constraint of the following three main assumption: Realism Thesis (RT) The meanings of symbols have being: they are either eternal, or temporal entities. Independence Thesis The being of entity without exception language or thought. (1..I) es does depend not upon at being least meant not in A2 (Adequacy Thesis) The canons of grammar and diction of colloquial languages are adequate for determining the canons of clarity (that is, the canons with respect to which what is said is counted as clearly or unclearly said), where these canons are directly understood to be logical canons. The second shows how through his criticisms -under RT and 1..1. of Russell's theory of types and theories of judgement, Wittgenstein commits himself and his sympathetic reader to an ultimate distinction between what can be said and what can be shown. This distinction directly gives rise to the paradox of TLP that according to the elucidation Wittgenstein gives of sentences with sense, the sentences of TLP must themselves lack sense. Accordingly, it is through his commitment to this paradox that Wittgenstein ceases to recognize Pc·, and other philosophical problems, as questions deserving of an answer in terms of propositions. This is how the problem of clarity purportedly receives its dissolution, at least when this problem is taken under the assumption of RT, IT and the assumption of the contingency of all facts. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)
5

From Science to Human Sacrifice: Frazer, Levi-Strauss and Wittgenstein on Understanding Foreign Ritual Practice

Contway, April Lee 03 December 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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Paradoxos ficcionais : literatura, solipsismo e esquizofrenia em Wittegenstein's mistress

Tomm, Davi Alexandre January 2016 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo do livro Wittgenstein‟s mistress (1988), do escritor estadunidense David Markson (1927 – 2010), cujo texto é narrado em primeira pessoa por uma mulher que se autodenomina Kate e que se apresenta como sendo o último ser humano sobrevivente no mundo. Habitando uma casa em alguma praia, ela senta-se diante da máquina de escrever e divaga sobre suas lembranças e viagens, misturando memória e imaginação, de forma a deixar-nos, nós, os leitores, sem um lastro firme para identificar o que é realidade e o que é ilusão. A análise aqui realizada aborda a estrutura paradoxal desse texto, que não consegue estabelecer de modo concreto um mundo ficcional no qual a personagem narradora habita, ou seja, não podemos saber o que realmente acontece ou não com ela. Esse efeito se dá principalmente por um estilo esquizofrênico que será relacionado com as reflexões e observações que o filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein denomina ―doenças do intelecto‖, as quais, segundo o professor de psicologia clínica e escritor Louis A. Sass, aproximam-se da esquizofrenia. O objetivo desta pesquisa é examinar a maneira como se imbricam as relações entre a linguagem ficcional do livro de Markson e a realidade extratextual, através de uma visão wittgensteiniana que coloca a linguagem imersa na nossa forma de vida, ancorada sempre nas práticas e costumes compartilhados pela sociedade. A análise mostrará que mesmo em um texto onde predomina esse estilo esquizofrênico que faz a linguagem se fechar no mundo interior da personagem, e também no mundo intratextual, ainda há a possibilidade de rompimento deste solipsismo textual, conectando essa linguagem à esfera intersubjetiva e comunitária. Esse rompimento só é possível através da apresentação (ou exteriorização) de vivências, que depende de uma confiança na linguagem como prática social e imersa na nossa forma de vida, assim como de uma confiança na prática de contar histórias. / This M.A. thesis analyses Wittgenstein‟s Mistress (1988), a book written by the American author David Markson (1927-2010), whose text is narrated, in the first person, by a woman who calls herself Kate. Declaring that she is the last remaining person alive in the world, Kate sits in front of her typewriter, in a house on a beach somewhere, revisiting her recollections and her travels. Memory and imagination are mixed in such a way that Kate leaves us, the readers, without a solid basis to separate reality from delusion. The focus of my research is the analysis of the paradoxal structure of this text that cannot sets up a fictional world in a concrete way. We cannot find a fictional world in which the narrator lives and so we cannot really know what happens or not happens to her. This effect exists mainly in a schizophrenic style which will be related to the reflections and observations made by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein about the ―sicknesses of the understanding‖ – which according to professor of clinical psychology and writer Louis A. Sass, come close to the realm of schizophrenia. The aim of this research is to examine the imbrications respecting the fictional language of Markson‘s book and the extratextual reality. This will be done through a Wittgensteinian perspective of language as something absorbed in our form of life, and grounded in practices and mores shared by society. The analysis will show that even in a text in which that schizophrenic style prevails, which makes language close itself in the internal world of the character and the text, there is still the possibility to break with this textual solipsism and connect language to the intersubjective and communal sphere. This break can only occur through the presentation (or exteriorization) of experiences that depend on a trust in language as a social practice immersed in our form of life, and on the trust in the practice of telling stories.
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Paradoxos ficcionais : literatura, solipsismo e esquizofrenia em Wittegenstein's mistress

Tomm, Davi Alexandre January 2016 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo do livro Wittgenstein‟s mistress (1988), do escritor estadunidense David Markson (1927 – 2010), cujo texto é narrado em primeira pessoa por uma mulher que se autodenomina Kate e que se apresenta como sendo o último ser humano sobrevivente no mundo. Habitando uma casa em alguma praia, ela senta-se diante da máquina de escrever e divaga sobre suas lembranças e viagens, misturando memória e imaginação, de forma a deixar-nos, nós, os leitores, sem um lastro firme para identificar o que é realidade e o que é ilusão. A análise aqui realizada aborda a estrutura paradoxal desse texto, que não consegue estabelecer de modo concreto um mundo ficcional no qual a personagem narradora habita, ou seja, não podemos saber o que realmente acontece ou não com ela. Esse efeito se dá principalmente por um estilo esquizofrênico que será relacionado com as reflexões e observações que o filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein denomina ―doenças do intelecto‖, as quais, segundo o professor de psicologia clínica e escritor Louis A. Sass, aproximam-se da esquizofrenia. O objetivo desta pesquisa é examinar a maneira como se imbricam as relações entre a linguagem ficcional do livro de Markson e a realidade extratextual, através de uma visão wittgensteiniana que coloca a linguagem imersa na nossa forma de vida, ancorada sempre nas práticas e costumes compartilhados pela sociedade. A análise mostrará que mesmo em um texto onde predomina esse estilo esquizofrênico que faz a linguagem se fechar no mundo interior da personagem, e também no mundo intratextual, ainda há a possibilidade de rompimento deste solipsismo textual, conectando essa linguagem à esfera intersubjetiva e comunitária. Esse rompimento só é possível através da apresentação (ou exteriorização) de vivências, que depende de uma confiança na linguagem como prática social e imersa na nossa forma de vida, assim como de uma confiança na prática de contar histórias. / This M.A. thesis analyses Wittgenstein‟s Mistress (1988), a book written by the American author David Markson (1927-2010), whose text is narrated, in the first person, by a woman who calls herself Kate. Declaring that she is the last remaining person alive in the world, Kate sits in front of her typewriter, in a house on a beach somewhere, revisiting her recollections and her travels. Memory and imagination are mixed in such a way that Kate leaves us, the readers, without a solid basis to separate reality from delusion. The focus of my research is the analysis of the paradoxal structure of this text that cannot sets up a fictional world in a concrete way. We cannot find a fictional world in which the narrator lives and so we cannot really know what happens or not happens to her. This effect exists mainly in a schizophrenic style which will be related to the reflections and observations made by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein about the ―sicknesses of the understanding‖ – which according to professor of clinical psychology and writer Louis A. Sass, come close to the realm of schizophrenia. The aim of this research is to examine the imbrications respecting the fictional language of Markson‘s book and the extratextual reality. This will be done through a Wittgensteinian perspective of language as something absorbed in our form of life, and grounded in practices and mores shared by society. The analysis will show that even in a text in which that schizophrenic style prevails, which makes language close itself in the internal world of the character and the text, there is still the possibility to break with this textual solipsism and connect language to the intersubjective and communal sphere. This break can only occur through the presentation (or exteriorization) of experiences that depend on a trust in language as a social practice immersed in our form of life, and on the trust in the practice of telling stories.
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Paradoxos ficcionais : literatura, solipsismo e esquizofrenia em Wittegenstein's mistress

Tomm, Davi Alexandre January 2016 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo do livro Wittgenstein‟s mistress (1988), do escritor estadunidense David Markson (1927 – 2010), cujo texto é narrado em primeira pessoa por uma mulher que se autodenomina Kate e que se apresenta como sendo o último ser humano sobrevivente no mundo. Habitando uma casa em alguma praia, ela senta-se diante da máquina de escrever e divaga sobre suas lembranças e viagens, misturando memória e imaginação, de forma a deixar-nos, nós, os leitores, sem um lastro firme para identificar o que é realidade e o que é ilusão. A análise aqui realizada aborda a estrutura paradoxal desse texto, que não consegue estabelecer de modo concreto um mundo ficcional no qual a personagem narradora habita, ou seja, não podemos saber o que realmente acontece ou não com ela. Esse efeito se dá principalmente por um estilo esquizofrênico que será relacionado com as reflexões e observações que o filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein denomina ―doenças do intelecto‖, as quais, segundo o professor de psicologia clínica e escritor Louis A. Sass, aproximam-se da esquizofrenia. O objetivo desta pesquisa é examinar a maneira como se imbricam as relações entre a linguagem ficcional do livro de Markson e a realidade extratextual, através de uma visão wittgensteiniana que coloca a linguagem imersa na nossa forma de vida, ancorada sempre nas práticas e costumes compartilhados pela sociedade. A análise mostrará que mesmo em um texto onde predomina esse estilo esquizofrênico que faz a linguagem se fechar no mundo interior da personagem, e também no mundo intratextual, ainda há a possibilidade de rompimento deste solipsismo textual, conectando essa linguagem à esfera intersubjetiva e comunitária. Esse rompimento só é possível através da apresentação (ou exteriorização) de vivências, que depende de uma confiança na linguagem como prática social e imersa na nossa forma de vida, assim como de uma confiança na prática de contar histórias. / This M.A. thesis analyses Wittgenstein‟s Mistress (1988), a book written by the American author David Markson (1927-2010), whose text is narrated, in the first person, by a woman who calls herself Kate. Declaring that she is the last remaining person alive in the world, Kate sits in front of her typewriter, in a house on a beach somewhere, revisiting her recollections and her travels. Memory and imagination are mixed in such a way that Kate leaves us, the readers, without a solid basis to separate reality from delusion. The focus of my research is the analysis of the paradoxal structure of this text that cannot sets up a fictional world in a concrete way. We cannot find a fictional world in which the narrator lives and so we cannot really know what happens or not happens to her. This effect exists mainly in a schizophrenic style which will be related to the reflections and observations made by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein about the ―sicknesses of the understanding‖ – which according to professor of clinical psychology and writer Louis A. Sass, come close to the realm of schizophrenia. The aim of this research is to examine the imbrications respecting the fictional language of Markson‘s book and the extratextual reality. This will be done through a Wittgensteinian perspective of language as something absorbed in our form of life, and grounded in practices and mores shared by society. The analysis will show that even in a text in which that schizophrenic style prevails, which makes language close itself in the internal world of the character and the text, there is still the possibility to break with this textual solipsism and connect language to the intersubjective and communal sphere. This break can only occur through the presentation (or exteriorization) of experiences that depend on a trust in language as a social practice immersed in our form of life, and on the trust in the practice of telling stories.
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The World in Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"

Fajardo, Tiffany L 27 March 2015 (has links)
In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.

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