Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-m9kch Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-03T05:47:38.625Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Godfrey Vesey
Affiliation:
Honorary DirectorThe Royal Institute of PhilosophyActing Dean and Director of Studies, The Arts FacultyThe Open University
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Foreword
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1973

References

page ix note 1 PI, I, 241.Google Scholar

page ix note 2 Z, 430.Google Scholar

page x note 1 PI, II, xii.Google Scholar

page x note 2 PI, I, 24.Google Scholar

page x note 3 Z, 430.Google Scholar

page x note 4 Cf. Wittgenstein, , Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. Barrett, Cyril (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966), p. 58Google Scholar: ‘Why shouldn't one form of life culminate in an utterance of belief in a Last Judgment?’

page xi note 1 Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Smith, Norman Kemp (London: Macmillan, 1934), B1516.Google Scholar

page xii note 1 The particular circumstances are ‘that he had learnt algebra, had used such formulae before’ (PI, I, 179Google Scholar). Note that having learnt algebra involves having acquired abilities shared with others who have learnt algebra.

page xii note 2 PI, I, 154.Google Scholar

page xii note 3 In PI, I, 154Google Scholar Wittgenstein says that by a ‘mental process’ he means such things as ‘a pain's growing more and less’, and ‘the hearing of a tune or a sentence’, but I think he was confused as to his own philosophical method at this point.

page xii note 4 PI, I, 305–9.Google Scholar

page xii note 5 I am drawing, here, on things I said in my review of Zettel, ‘Wittgenstein on the Myth of Mental Processes’, Philosophical Review, lxxvii (1968) pp. 350–5.Google Scholar

page xiii note 1 BB, p. 61.Google Scholar

page xiv note 1 On this and related points I am grateful to Rush Rhees for his comments on an early draft of this foreword. Whether the use I have made of them is one of which he would approve is another matter.

page xv note 1 PI, II, xii.Google Scholar

page xv note 2 TLP, 2.0212.