Spoken Book: Wittgenstein's "On Certainty" # 310 – 410

Part 3 of this classic in philosophy in which Wittgenstein further explores the grammar of the words 'know', 'certain', 'doubt', 'believe', and 'mistake' – exposing the lie of Descartes's 'radical doubt' as a sham concept since real 'doubting' behavior requires some things to be certain, such as our 'grounds for doubt'. He describes the small niches words actually have in our language game, as his examples delimit their meaning by their actual uses. This contains the famous comment about how a philosopher, one who can think himself, can benefit from reading his notes, for he can see the targets of his investigations even if his strikes are not always on the bull's eye. Remark # 387.

Видео Spoken Book: Wittgenstein's "On Certainty" # 310 – 410 канала Stephen Doty