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The Ontogenesis of Human Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Giovanni Boniolo
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“<<Es ist, als wären unsere Begriffe bedingt durch ein Gerüst von Tatsachen>>.

Das hiess doch: Wenn du dir gewisse Tatsachen anders denkst, sie anders beschreibst, als sie sind, dann kannst du die Anwendung gewisser Begriffe dir nicht mehr vorstellen, weil die Regeln ihrer Anwendung kein Analogon unter den neuen Umstanden haben.” (L. Wittgenstein, Zettel, § 350)

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 56 , December 2005 , pp. 49 - 82
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