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Wittgenstein on the Structure of the Soul: a New Interpretation of Tractatus 5.5421
Author(s) -
Lokhorst GertJan C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9205.1991.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - erasmus+ , soul , interpretation (philosophy) , philosophy , citation , classics , theology , art history , computer science , library science , history , linguistics , the renaissance
5.542 I t is clear, however, that ‘A believes that p’, ‘A thinks p’, ‘A says p’ are of the form ‘ “p” says p’: and this does not involve a correlation o f a fact with an object, but rather the correlation of facts by means of the correlation of their objects . 5.5421 This shows too that the soul2 the subject, etc. as it is conceived in the superficial psychology of the present day is a monstrosity. For a composite soul would no longer be a soul.