On the Austere Conception of Nonsense

In Quitterer and Runggaldier Kanzian (ed.), Persons. An interdisciplinary dialogue, Vol. 10, nr 37. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS. pp. 25-27 (2002)
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In this paper I criticize James Conant’s account of the ”austere conception of nonsense”. 1) Conant tells us that no distinctions are made within nonsense, according to the “austere conception of nonsense”. I argue that this is not the case. 2) Conant claims that there can be no fixed answers to whether a remark is nonsensical or not. He also provides a list of remarks that must be understood as meaningful. 3) I argue that it follows from Conant’s account that the success of the philosophical project of the Tractatus depends on the reader undergoing a certain psychological process. It is however crucial for Wittgenstein, according to Conant, to follow Frege in the separation between philosophy and psychology.

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Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein.James Conant - 2000 - In Alice Crary & Rupert J. Read (eds.), The New Wittgenstein. Routledge. pp. 174--217.

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