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1. • • In explicit opposition to Moore, Wittgenstein does not take our basic assurance to be epistemic; he believes it to be more foundational than knowing (OC 414): it ‘lies beyond being justified or unjustified’ (OC 359); and can no more be true than it can be false (OC 205).
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   What does Wittgenstein say about certainty?

   • On Certainty is a series of notes Wittgenstein took toward the end of his life on matters related to knowledge, doubt, skepticism, and certainty. Although the notes are not organized into any coherent whole, certain themes and preoccupations recur throughout.

   Selected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty Summary & Analysis

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   Does Wittgenstein believe in a continuum?

   • Indeed, Wittgenstein excludes the idea of a continuum in his description of the relation between norms and empirical propositions in our system of beliefs: ‘one isn’t trying to express even the greatest subjective certainty, but rather that certain propositions seem to underlie all questions and all thinking’ (OC 415).

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   Does Wittgenstein recur in on certainty?

   • Although the notes are not organized into any coherent whole, certain themes and preoccupations recur throughout. On Certainty takes as its starting point Wittgenstein’s response to a paper given by G. E. Moore, called “A Proof of the External World.”

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   What does Wittgenstein mean by the logical nature of certainty?

   • What Wittgenstein seems to mean by the logical nature of certainty with respect to Moorean propositions is that these propositions function as something like rules in a given language game.

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   An important outcome is Wittgenstein's claim that all doubt is embedded in underlying beliefs and therefore the most radical forms of doubt must be rejected since they form a contradiction within the system that expressed them.

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   Aug 14, 2023 · Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty” was a response to G. E. Moore’s essays which aimed to identify propositions that are beyond skepticism. Wittgenstein examined the idea that certain propositions serve as the bedrock or foundation for other empirical statements.

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   Wittgenstein’s writings in the last two years of his life (after May 1949) never advanced to the typescript stage. In these writings three main themes can be clearly distinguished. The one which is treated most fully concerns knowledge and certainty, and what Wittgenstein wrote on this theme was published under the title On Certaintyin 1969 ...

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   Nov 23, 2019 · In a nutshell, what Wittgenstein demonstrates in On Certainty is that the traditional epistemological project of defending knowledge from sceptical attack presupposes, like the Cartesian form of scepticism that it is responding to, that there can be such a thing as universal rational evaluations.

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   Overview. Authors: Robert Greenleaf Brice. An accessible guidebook to the themes and arguments presented in On Certainty. Takes into account the historical context and the philosophical topics explored by Wittgenstein. Provides close and careful scrutiny of individual parts, sections, and statements of this important philosophical work.

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    Feb 2, 2008 · Ludwig Wittgenstein also seems to connect certainty with indubitability. He says that “If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty” (1969, §115).