Language and Knowledge in Wittgenstein

The aims of this dissertation are to both analyze and problematize the relationship between two key concepts in philosophy – language and knowledge – using Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work. A corpus constituted by Wittgenstein’s main texts was assembled for the analysis. The main works that make up this c...

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Autor principal: Souto, João Henrique dos Santos Rodrigues Nogueira (author)
Formato: masterThesis
Idioma:por
Publicado em: 2019
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/85763
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/85763
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Resumo:The aims of this dissertation are to both analyze and problematize the relationship between two key concepts in philosophy – language and knowledge – using Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work. A corpus constituted by Wittgenstein’s main texts was assembled for the analysis. The main works that make up this corpus are the Notebooks 1914-1916, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations. In this dissertation, it is argued that the concepts of language and knowledge are interconnected, that our access to reality is dependent on our language and that the construction of knowledge is a process intrinsically dependent on language.