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Arithmetical Certainties: A Few Exceptions Among Countless Knowledge- Statements
(Thémata. Revista de Filosofía, 2022)
In this paper I disagree with Kusch (2016) on three issues concerning expressions of arithmetical certainties - in Wittgenstein's sense - and regular uses of arithmetical expressions. Specifically, I explain why calculations ...
The teacher as persuader: On the application of Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘persuasion’ in educational practice
(Routledge, 2022)
Wittgenstein’s conception of ‘persuasion’, understood as the persuader’s attempt to modify the persuadee’s certainties, has been recently misinterpreted by some scholars. For Persichetti has overlooked the fact that one ...
What the language of the Third Reich – as described by Klemperer – can teach us about certainties in Wittgenstein’s sense
(Aufklärung revista de filosofia, 2023)
Victor Klemperer (18811960) was a German Professor of Romance Languages who became famous especially for the writings in which he related how the Nazis deformed the German language to the extent of developing what he called ...
How Negative Knowledge Relates to Negative Certainty: An Instance of Cognitive Vulnerability
(De Gruyter Brill, 2023)
In this chapter, I aim to show how Ortega y Gasset’s conception of “belief” and Wittgenstein’s notion of “certainty” can also be understood in negative terms; furthermore, I analyze how they relate to negative knowledge. ...