Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy (Dec 2016)

Showing and saying. An Aesthetic difference

  • Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n2p328
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
pp. 328 – 342

Abstract

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This article defends that Wittgenstein's distinction between showing and saying and the critical thesis associated with it, i.e: that what is shown can't be said, is crucial to understand not only his first philosophy but even his second one; and not only his philosophy of language but also his Aesthetics.

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