Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant professor, Department of contemporary intercultural studies, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. Tehran. Iran.

Abstract

 
Elizabeth Anscombe describes Wittgenstein's ideas (in his book Philosophical investigations) on language as a partial linguistic idealism. Because, Wittgenstein, according to Anscombe, interprets social rules and norms in a way that is consistent with linguistic idealism, and his explanation of concepts of natural essences is not entirely consistent with linguistic idealism. According to Anscombe, Wittgenstein doesn’t explain objects idealistically and he takes them presumed independently of language. Here, after expressing Anscombe's argument in defense of the above claim, I will criticize it. This critique is based on the argument of commentators who defend the position that Wittgenstein's linguistic idealism should not be described as "partial". Based on the analysis presented here, the concepts of physical identities and natural essences are also explained, from Wittgenstein's point of view, by relying on what we call linguistic idealism. We will defend this claim by relying, firstly, on the general view of the author of Philosophical Investigation on the meaning and, secondly, on the self-referring nature of language and its scope, in his view.        

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