Aspect perception and rule‐following in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

This paper aims to highlight a distinctive, projective, mode of aspect perception within Wittgenstein's philosophy that has gone underappreciated in the scholarly literature. Although it bears a family resemblance to other instances of the phenomenon Wittgenstein describes as 'noticing an aspect' in...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Investigations Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 74 - 97
Autor principal: Connelly, James
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2026
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