Wittgenstein and Psychology: on our ‘Hook Up’ to Reality
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
- Vol. 28, 193-208
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100005312
Abstract
We must do away with explanation, and description alone must take its place. And this description gets its light, that is to say its purpose, from … philosophical problems. These are, of course, not empirical problems; they are solved, rather, by looking into the workings of our language, and that in such a way as to make us recognize those workings: in spite of an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have already known. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (PI, I, 109)Keywords
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