PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Language Game, On Certainty

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 200
• Professor: Michael Blome Tillmann

Document Summary

Ludwig wittgenstein (1889-1951: great philosopher of the 20th century, born in austria, started academic career in engineering, became interested in mathematics and was directed to cambridge. Interrupted by the great war: served in the austrian army and was captured and spend several years in a. Wittgenstein vs. moore: moore sought to reject all manner of scepticism by arguing common sense should be good enough. For ex: this hand i hold in front of me exists and is indeed my hand: argued we know to be true. Words and language game: set of practices around how we use words.