On Certainty
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 6, 1972
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- Genres
- What We Can Know, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy Writing
- Published
- HarperCollins, September 6, 1972
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Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defense 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.
Philosophical Detour
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- On Certainty adjacency
- philosophy, language, the modern century
Expect
- close reading, not plot
- ideas that reward revisiting
Where it sits
| What We Can Know | 99% |
|---|---|
| Philosophy of Language | 35% |
| Philosophy Writing | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Military History
- 20th-Century America
- World History
- 21st-Century History
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- Holocaust History
- Ancient Philosophy
- What We Can Know
- Ethics
- Authors
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, G. H. von Wright
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 6, 1972
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Military History