On Certainty - Hardcover

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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ISBN 10: 0631120009 ISBN 13: 9780631120001

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1974

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Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore′s defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein′s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

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Review:

"The seventh volume of the Wittgenstein corpus, which contains notes written at the end of his life.... Provides a straightforward guide to the thought of this most complex of philosophers." -- "Bookseller""The volume is full of thought-provoking insights which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement." -- Alan R. White, "Philosophical Books""All students of philosophy will want to read it. What it contains is his notes on knowledge and doubt, written in the last year and a half of his life, mainly in answer to G. E. Moore's articles on these subjects." -- "British Book News"

About the Author:

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach.

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