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Malinowski's influence on Wittgenstein on the matter of use in language
Author(s) -
Rose Dan
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198004)16:2<145::aid-jhbs2300160205>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - epistemology , heuristic , sociology , on language , philosophy , linguistics , anthropology
Language use in social contexts plays a central role in the thinking of philosophers and social scientists. Evidence is presented that suggests that the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski influenced Ludwig Wittgenstein on the contexted use of language. It is also proposed that non‐Western peoples have been a heuristic for Western thinkers on epistemological matters.