![]() ![]() Perhaps some of the views presented here should die the death of a thousand qualifications, and othen the less-protracted death of straightforward refutation. However, since this is a work of reference I have tried to present as clear-cut a position as Wittgenstein's prudent qualifications allow. Another view is that Wittgenstein's remarks often do not present answers to his self-posed questions, or hard-line positions, that they are full of qualifications and investigate rather than affirm or deny. I have therefore stressed not only lines of historical influence, but agreements and disagreements with past and present thinkers. Although Wittgenstein's philosophical method is revolutionary in seeking to undermine even the assumptions underlying previous debates, he does so by way of arguments which can be assessed for their soundness. In my view this interpretation is unfounded. These commentators find his work so out of the ordinary as to be incommensurable with the rest of philosophy. ![]() Some commentators suggest that Wittgenstein does not engage in a radonal debate with other philosophcn, but mcrcly tries to convert them to his point of view. ![]()
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