Wittgenstein on Truth: Some Remarks on Paragraphs 134-137 of Philosophical Investigations

Q4 Arts and Humanities Analiza i Egzystencja Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.18276/aie.2023.63-01
Jan Wawrzyniak
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The main aim of this text is to explicate what paragraphs 134-137 of Philosophical Investigations say about truth. Nevertheless, I start with a discussion of the remarks on truth contained in the Tractatus because the thoughts expressed in the latter should be read in the context of the thoughts expressed in the former. According to my interpretation of paragraphs 134-137 of the Investigations, Wittgenstein aims to show that the relationship between the concept of truth and the concept of a proposition may consist in the fact that truth and falsity, in certain language games, are constitutive elements of what a proposition is, but it must be added that these concepts cannot be comprehended independently from each other. I also come to the conclusion that in his opinion the concept of truth is expressed in various ways in our language, it being conveyed by such expressions as “… is true” and “this is how things are: …”, and that this shows that while asserting that something is true one can emphasize, on the one hand, that it is a proposition that says that things are a certain way, and on the other, just the fact that things are thus and so.
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维特根斯坦论真理——评《哲学研究》第134-137段
本文的主要目的是阐明《哲学研究》第134-137段对真理的看法。尽管如此,我还是要从讨论《论》中关于真理的评论开始,因为《论》中表达的思想应该放在《论》中表达的思想的背景下阅读。根据我对《研究》第134-137段的解释,维特根斯坦旨在表明真理概念和命题概念之间的关系可能在于这样一个事实,即在某些语言游戏中,真理和谬误是命题的构成要素,但必须补充的是,这些概念不能相互独立地理解。我还得出结论,在他看来真理表达的概念以不同的方式在我们的语言中,它被等表情传达“…是真的”和“事实就是如此:……”,这表明,虽然声称某样东西是正确可以强调,一方面,它是一个命题,说,都是一种特定的方式,而另一方面,只是事情因此所以这一事实。
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