Does language have a downtown? Wittgenstein, Brandom, and the game of “giving and asking for reasons”

Wittgenstein’s Investigations proposed an egalitarian view about language games, emphasizing their plurality (“language has no downtown”). Uses of words depend on the game one is playing, and may change when playing another. Furthermore, there is no privileged game dictating the rules for the other...

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Main Author: Pietro Salis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Disputatio Editions-IAR 2019-06-01
Series:Disputatio
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Online Access:https://studiahumanitatis.eu/ojs/index.php/disputatio/article/view/146