• Negative certainty 

      Ariso Salgado, José María (Educational Philosophy and Theory, 01/2017)
      The definitions of negative knowledge' and the studies in this regard published to date have not considered the categorial distinction Wittgenstein established between knowledge and certainty. Hence, the important role ...
    • La relevancia pedagógica de las certezas desde el punto de vista del docente 

      Ariso Salgado, José María (Revista Española de Pedagogía, 30/09/2015)
      Cuando sólo contaba veintinueve años de edad, el filósofo vienés Ludwig Wittgenstein dejó escrito en el prólogo de su Tractatus logico-philosophicus que con dicha obra quedaban resueltos en lo esencial los problemas ...
    • Some variations of the certainty of one’s own death 

      Ariso Salgado, José María (Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 01/2015)
      In principle, every mentally healthy adult in Western civilization should be completely convinced that he will die and that his death might happen at any time. In this paper, however, I bring up the work of two Spanish ...
    • The pedagogical relevance of certainties from the teacher's perspective 

      Ariso Salgado, José María (Revista Española de Pedagogía, 09/2015)
      Taking into account that the pedagogical implications of Ludwig Wittgenstein's On, Certainty have scarcely been addressed in the existing literature, this paper presents the basic concepts of the mentioned work, especially ...
    • Why the Wrongness of Killing Innocents is Not a Universal Moral Certainty 

      Ariso Salgado, José María (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)
      In this paper, I argue that the certainty about the wrongness of killing must not be considered as a universal, but as a local one. Initially, I show that there exist communities in which the wrongness of killing innocents ...