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Linguistic behavior, empirical realm and philosophy in Wittgenstein

In the 1940s, Wittgenstein deepens his expansion of the criterial field of concepts and the possible and desirable analysis thereof, towards a greater inclusion, in the formal, of the lived. This paper examines some questions pertaining to the charge that, by widening the realm of conceptual analysis towards Praxis (or, as the philosopher put it, "ritual behavior"), Wittgenstein would have disparaged his philosophical sensibility into strictly empirical thus philosophically irrelevant - investigations.

Ordinary Language; Linguistic Behavior; Pragmatics; Autonomy of Sense; Austin; Wittgenstein


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