Tag Archives: Ludwig Wittgenstein
I. Prologue There are only a few papers arguing a solution for the Sorites Paradox based on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (“PI”) and related writings. This is understandable for two reasons: 1) Wittgenstein never mentions the Sorites though he must have known about it because he spends considerable effort contemplating vagueness and the problems it […]
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using […]