The Philosophical Significance of Secondary Uses of Language in Wittgenstein’s Late Philosophy

This paper aims to provide an account of Wittgenstein’s employment of the distinction between primary and secondary uses. Against views that either dismiss secondariness as an uninteresting by-product of our rule-governed employment of words or circumscribe their relevance to aesthetics, ethics, or...

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Main Author: Marco Marchesin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Wittgenstein Society 2022-08-01
Series:Nordic Wittgenstein Review
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Online Access:https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3605