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Criticising from “Outside”
Author(s) -
Diamond Cora
Publication year - 2013
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/phin.12000
Subject(s) - element (criminal law) , epistemology , alien , philosophy , law , political science , politics , citizenship
I look at a disagreement between E lizabeth A nscombe, on the one hand, and P eter W inch and I lham D ilman, on the other, about whether it is legitimate to call something an error that counts as knowledge within some alien system of belief; and I look also at the question what W ittgenstein's view was. I try to show that our understanding of what is real cannot be adequately elucidated if we consider only its role within language‐games, and I argue that an important element in our thinking about what is and is not real emerges in our response to conflicting modes of thought.

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