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56The new Wittgenstein. By Alice Crary and Rupert read (eds.), London & new York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. IX + 403, ??17.99Philosophy 78 (3): 425-430. 2003.
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54Rhees on the Unity of LanguagePhilosophical Investigations 35 (3-4): 224-237. 2012.Rush Rhees held Wittgenstein's work in high esteem but considered it in need of deepening. He was critical of Wittgenstein's idea that the builders' game might be the whole language of a tribe and that human language could be thought of as simply a range of language games. Rhees thought that Wittgenstein failed to do justice to the unity of language. The idea of the unity of language appears to have both an anthropological and an ethical aspect. The latter is illustrated with the help of a Hemin…Read more
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82Imagination and the sense of identityIn David Cockburn (ed.), Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Cambridge University Press. pp. 143-155. 1991.Most of us, at one time or another, will have been struck by a thought that we might wish to express in the following words: ‘I could have been born in a different time and place, my position in life and all my personal characteristics could have been completely different from what they are; how amazing then that it should have fallen to my lot to live my life, the only life I shall ever live, as this particular individual rather than any other.’ This thought need not derive from a sense that th…Read more
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Very general facts of natureIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Rom Harre and Michael Krausz, Varieties of RelativismPhilosophical Investigations 22 197-202. 1999.
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