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What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations (2002)
Thesis
Phillips, D. M. (2002). What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations. (Thesis). University of Durham. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4055594

My thesis is that the say-show distinction is the basis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy in both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein said that the Investigations should... Read More about What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations.