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The Possibility Of Technical Definition In Later Wittgenstein, James M. Donovan
The Possibility Of Technical Definition In Later Wittgenstein, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Wittgenstein’s philosophy remains influential. If its tenets impose constraints on either the possibility of scientific definition at all, or upon the kinds that will be valid, then those limits should be recognized and to the extent possible, observed. Locating the locus of meaning in ordinary use does appear to preclude certain types of definitional strategies. Stipulative definitions of terms that have ordinary currency but which are idiosyncratic and not grounded in that common usage would appear to be most troublesome. It is not that one could not attempt such definitions (quite the contrary, they are offered at every turn), but …
A Critique Of Levinson, Ryan Dreveskracht