The Expression of Wonderment.
In this paper, I consider certain remarks raised by Wittgenstein in his Lecture on Ethics in connection with the effability of absolute value. My focus is on the expressions we use to talk about the experience of wonderment at the existence of the world, which he dismisses as nonsensical owing to th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 138 - 156 |
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