Wittgenstein Workshop 2015年2月11日 University of East Anglia
In this paper, I will investigate Wittgenstein's idea, which I dub Wittgenstein's contextualism, that there is a big gap between understanding a sentence in the sense of knowing the idioms and discerning the grammar in it, and what is said by using it in a particular context. Although Wittgenstein's contextualism in this moderate sense is a familiar idea in Wittgensteinian scholarship, it has mainly studied as an idea in "Wittgenstein's philosophy of language." Therefore, what is lacking in those preceding stuides is the study of the relation between Wittgenstein's contextualism in my moderate sense and his philosophical therapy. Therefore, I shall investigate that relation and show that (i) Wittgenstein's philosophical method cannot be intelligible without taking Wittgenstein's contextualism into consideration and (ii) Wittgenstein's focus on context is deeply connected with his method for treating philosophers' "pictures."