Passionate reason

pp. 61-80

in: Harold Durfee, Foundational reflections, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstrakt

“Wittgenstein, of course, did not provide an ‘empirical criterion’ for the elementary propositions that are compatible with reality, but rather he postulates the existence of such propositions and the ‘states of affairs’ correlated with them merely as the basis for the intelligibility of meaningful propositions,”4