On Certainty: Parallel Text (Set books / Open University)

by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), George Henrikvon Wright (Editor), G . E . M . Anscombe (Editor)

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1975
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Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

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Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15 Sep 1975
ISBN 10: 0631169407
ISBN 13: 9780631169406

Media Reviews

The seventh volume of the Wittgenstein corpus, which contains notes written at the end of his life.... Provides a straightforward guide to the thought of this most complex of philosophers. -- Bookseller The volume is full of thought-provoking insights which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement. -- Alan R. White, Philosophical Books All students of philosophy will want to read it. What it contains is his notes on knowledge and doubt, written in the last year and a half of his life, mainly in answer to G. E. Moore's articles on these subjects. -- British Book News

Author Bio

Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1889 - 1951 - was an Austrian-British philosopher who taught at the University of Cambridge and is known as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He worked in the areas of logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the mind and language. The majority of his writing was published after his death.

G. E. M. Anscombe - 1919-2001 - read classics and philosophy at St. Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She's considered one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures and a leader in the field of virtue ethics.