The Egocentric Predicament
Thomas Nagel, 18 May 1989
The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Vol. II
by David Pears.
Oxford, 355 pp., £29.50, November 1988,0 19 824487 8 Show More
by David Pears.
Oxford, 355 pp., £29.50, November 1988,
“... need in natural language is a central issue of Wittgenstein interpretation, stirred up recently by Saul Kripke’s proposals and the response to them – which Pears now joins. Pears explains Wittgenstein’s argument that the rule for the application of a term cannot be captured by an ‘instant mental talisman’, for no such thing could by itself ... ”
