(M)ANY QUESTIONS? A COMPARISON OF THE USE OF QUESTIONS IN THE WITTGENSTEIN’S FIRST 37 PARAGRAPHS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS WITH AUSTIN’S ESSAY “THE MEANING OF A WORD”

• Authors: Blahoslav Fajmon
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophy is closely related not only to the content but also to the form of his investigations. The following paper presents the uniqueness of Wittgenstein’s writing style, namely his use of questions, by comparing part of his work with Austin’s essay. For this purpose a typology of questions with regard to their function in the text is established and applied. The difference between Wittgenstein’s and Austin’s writing style is then documented by the frequency of certain types of questions, and omission of others, and related to some of Wittgenstein’s remarks about his approach to philosophical inquiry. The difference is then summarized tentatively as one between “pedagogical” and “academic” writing style, which poses questions concerning the translation of Wittgenstein’s investigations into academic prose.

Keywords

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AUSTIN; INVESTIGATION; PHILOSOPHY; QUESTIONS; WORD; TYPOLOGY; WITTGENSTEIN

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 101 – 120

Contributors

author

Blahoslav Fajmon

• Teologická fakulta, Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Kněžská 8, 370 01 Czech Republic