Wittgenstein's Perspective on "the Cause-Effect Language- game"

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  • ウィトゲンシュタインの「原因-結果の言語ゲーム」への視点
  • ウィトゲンシュタイン ノ ゲンイン ケッカ ノ ゲンゴ ゲーム ヘノ シテン
  • ウィトゲンシュタイン ノ ゲンイン ケッカ ノ ゲンゴ ゲーム エ ノ シテン

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Wittgenstein had made little remarks on Causality. In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he remarks mainly in Tautologies, so he makes no positive argument on Causality. We are interested in his point of view on it in his later philosophy. At his point of “Language-games”, in what ways does he argue scientific statements and causality? I in particular pick up “Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness”(Wittgenstein, 1937). In this paper, he comes up with ‘the Cause-Effect Language-game’ that start with our ‘reaction’ to ‘cause’. By elucidating it, we would get a clear overall representation of ‘Language-Games’. The purpose of my paper is to make up the check-list for our discussing ‘Language-games’. With this check-list, we would be able tp avoid two philosophical positions: the position that treats the casual nexus as real in metaphysical sense, and the position that gives rise to paradox by appealing logical possibility.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 23-1 59-74, 2002

    Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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