Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer

Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer

In this paper I demonstrate the connection between the single remark Wittgenstein made explicitly on Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des als ob and the remarks he made on Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough. After a critical-genetic exposition of the relevant material, I offer an interpretat...

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Main Author: Carlos Alves Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Wittgenstein Society 2015-03-01
Series:Nordic Wittgenstein Review
Online Access:http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3274
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spelling doaj-7b9525c7adbd4e09b1114a9de9325cc52020-11-24T23:59:33ZengNordic Wittgenstein SocietyNordic Wittgenstein Review2194-68252242-248X2015-03-011451653274Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and FrazerCarlos Alves Pereira0University of Lisbon; Nova University of Lisbon.In this paper I demonstrate the connection between the single remark Wittgenstein made explicitly on Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des als ob and the remarks he made on Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough. After a critical-genetic exposition of the relevant material, I offer an interpretation of that connection, which will require that I interpret the remark on the philosophy of “as if” relative to how Wittgenstein seems to regard Vaihinger’s fictionalism and relative to how Wittgenstein reads Frazer.http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3274
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description In this paper I demonstrate the connection between the single remark Wittgenstein made explicitly on Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des als ob and the remarks he made on Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough. After a critical-genetic exposition of the relevant material, I offer an interpretation of that connection, which will require that I interpret the remark on the philosophy of “as if” relative to how Wittgenstein seems to regard Vaihinger’s fictionalism and relative to how Wittgenstein reads Frazer.
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