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Saving the differences
"A friend reported that Wittgenstein considered taking a line from King Lear, "I'll teach you differences," as a motto for the Philosophical Investigations. The "differences" he had in mind, of course, were not of the etiquette of rank and station, which the Duke of Kent was keen to enforce, but differences in the role and function of superficially similar language games - differences, in Wittgenstein's famous view, that those very similarities encourage us to overlook, thereby constituting a prime cause of philosophical misunderstandings and confusions. Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity explored a wide range of such differences to bring about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debates concerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposals put forward in that work." "Among the papers are important discussions...
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